Asteroid Hitting Earth 2024 News Update. It has become the fourth detected asteroid strike of the year and the 11th of all time. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.

On january 20, 2024, astronomer krisztián sárneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with earth. 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);