Asteroid Hitting Earth In 2024. A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid dimorphos and nasa's dart spacecraft, may be on a collision course with. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.

The asteroid is expected to make its closest approach to the planet on august 29 and will fly by at a distance of 730,000 miles. An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.