Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024. 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 gigantic asteroid 2024 on, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to earth next tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between earth and the moon.

The asteroid, named 2024 on, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) — roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon and earth —. Imagine looking up and knowing five massive asteroids are speeding past earth within the next week.