Asteroid 2024 Jn1601. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on june 29. The asteroid watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to earth.
Part of nasa’s deep space network, the goldstone solar system radar, near barstow in california, will track the object during its next close pass of our planet, in january. The distance of asteroid (neo) 2024 sc1 from earth is currently 2,025,172.0 kilometers, equivalent to 0.0135374387 astronomical units.