Nasa issues alert for stadium-sized asteroid approaching Earth
Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday.
The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million km of Earth, according to the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The space rock last made a pass of Earth in 2013, and will make another approach in 2035, according to Nasa’s data.
The object was first spotted by Nasa’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, which uses observatories around the world to detect undiscovered NEOs.
It is being tracked by the Virtual Telescope Project, which captured the “potentially hazardous” asteroid on 9 September travelling at around 40,000 kilometres per hour.
