Asteroid 2024 Jn161drg. Part of nasa’s deep space network, the goldstone solar system radar, near barstow in california, will track the object during its next close pass of our planet, in january. It did not hit earth but came within a mere 11,500 miles (18,500 kilometers) of our planet’s surface when.

The asteroid 2024 jn16 is less than 15 feet (4 meters) wide — about the size of a car. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of.