Christmas Asteroid 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. The european space agency (esa) issued a challenge to spot the christmas asteroid and encouraged anyone who does so to share their observation on social media.
Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km. 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.