Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024 Nasa. Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years โ a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city. Managed for nasa at the jet propulsion laboratory, the center for near earth object studies (cneos) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near.
Apophis is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) in width. The asteroid, named 2024 on, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) โ roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon.