Asteroid Hitting Earth 2024 Time Zone. The asteroid, first named c0wepc5 and now officially designated 2024 xa1, harmlessly entered earth’s atmosphere around 16:14 utc (10:14 a.m. Asteroid 2024 bj, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will zoom within 220,000 miles of earth tomorrow, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon.
Asteroid 2024 on, sized roughly 720 feet in diameter, will safely pass earth today at a distance of 997,793 kilometers—more than 2.5 times the distance between the earth and. The dashboard displays the next five earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon);