Asteroid Heading For Earth 2024. Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole. 26th, 2022, nasa's double asteroids redirect test (dart) collided with dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid didymos.
On january 20, 2024, astronomer krisztián sárneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with earth. When the probe arrived at bennu in 2018, researchers were surprised that instead of the smooth surface that they’d expected, the asteroid was studded with huge.