Christmas Asteroid 2024. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball. The asteroid, named 2024 on, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) — roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon and earth —.
The second asteroid, 2024 ux6, is slightly smaller at 37 meters (121 feet) and will pass at a farther distance of 6,590,000 kilometers (4,095,000 miles). Asteroids 2024 tp17 and 2015 hm1 started off thursday’s cosmic conga line in the morning.
