Asteroid TU24 to fly-by earth on 29/01 — WE MADE IT !

UPDATE: We made it 😉

No signs of any natural disasters caused by the electromagnetic disturbance either…

2007 TU24 came close enough so the Goldstone Solar System Radar Telescope in California’s Mojave Desert, to refine estimates of the asteroid’s size and take this sequence of images. It zoomed past Earth today at such a distance of only 1.4x the distance between Earth and the Moon.

Measuring between 150m and 600m across, asteroid 2007 TU24 would have inflicted devastating regional damage were it to hit Earth. Fortunately, it flew by today, about 537.500km from the Earth at its closest point at 10.33 AM (Brussels time).