Asteroid 2024 Cr940 New. The asteroid, named 2024 on, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) — roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon and earth —. The asteroid is expected to enter earth’s orbit sunday and lurk there until nov.
— asteroid apophis will visit earth in 2029. It was at 22:48 cet on saturday, january 20 when veteran asteroid hunter sárneczky discovered a new asteroid using the 60 cm schmidt telescope at piszkéstető.