Asteroid Heading Towards Earth 2024 Map. It is expected to burn up harmlessly on the morning of dec. Asteroid 2024 on will safely fly past earth on 17 september 2024 at 10:17 utc (12:17 cest).

Asteroid 2024 bj, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will zoom within 220,000 miles of earth tomorrow, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon. Earth is set to gain another moon by the end of the month — a small asteroid that will be snared by our planet’s gravity until the end of the year, scientists say.