A small asteroid burned up in Earth’s atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.
An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd ‘imminent impactor’ of 2024
Posted in asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
#DART 2 : send a spacecraft to the asteroid and land with minor jetting for better control of the asteroids direction with it not against its motion!