Asteroid 2007 TU24
Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past the Earth by 1.4 lunar distance (538,000 km) on 30 January at 4:33pm UT+8 . The 250m-wide space rock is not going to collide with Earth. The magnitude of TU24 is 10th so a telescope with at least 76 cm can reveal the asteroid.
This will be the closest approach until the next century. It’s also the asteroid’s closest Earth approach for 2,000 years. Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 11, 2007.
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