Asteroid Impact October 2024. The target for dart is an asteroid that will have a distant approach to earth in october 2022, and then again in 2024. The deep space network’s goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 mk and 2011 ul21 as they safely passed earth.
On 20 january 2024, astronomer krisztián sárneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with earth. 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.