Asteroid 2024 Rw14

Asteroid 2024 Rw14. The encounter in 2024 will be the closest by this asteroid for more than three centuries. These are the final observations of the asteroid acquired by esa’s astronomers shortly before it entered earth's shadow, around 37 minutes before impact, using a telescope.

On 4 september at 16:39 utc (18:39 cest), a small asteroid entered earth’s atmosphere near the philippines, exploding in a fireball witnessed by people in the region. The european space agency estimated the.