Next Five Asteroid Approaches
CAR-SIZE
Approximate Size
16 Feet
16Closest Earth Approach
186,000 Miles
186,000Name
Date
Oct. 4, 2024CAR-SIZE
Approximate Size
18 Feet
18Closest Earth Approach
605,000 Miles
605,000Name
Date
Oct. 4, 2024
HOUSE-SIZE
Approximate Size
49 Feet
49Closest Earth Approach
936,000 Miles
936,000Name
Date
Oct. 4, 2024
BUS-SIZE
Approximate Size
38 Feet
38Closest Earth Approach
1,350,000 Miles
1,350,000Name
Date
Oct. 4, 2024BUS-SIZE
Approximate Size
30 Feet
30Closest Earth Approach
2,330,000 Miles
2,330,000Name
Date
Oct. 4, 2024About the Asteroid Watch Dashboard
The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter. The object's name is displayed by hovering over its encounter date. Clicking on the encounter date will display a Web page with details about that object.
The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.
The average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 kilometers).