Asteroid 2024 Mt1. On 20 january 2024, astronomer krisztián sárneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with earth. A small asteroid, 2024 pt5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep.

Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km. Find the sun in the sky using our online planetarium web application.