Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:01pm on 17 Sep 2024,Tuesday Science
NASA has issued an alert for asteroid 2024 ON, a 290-metre-wide space rock set to approach Earth on Tuesday. Traveling at 40,000 km/h, it will pass within 1 million kilometers of Earth. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program first spotted the asteroid, which last came close to Earth in 2013. Though 2024 ON poses no threat on its current path, a slight deviation could have significant consequences. Skywatchers won’t see it without telescopes, but a rare partial lunar eclipse coinciding with a supermoon will be visible on the same day across Europe, Africa, and parts of the Americas.
