Asteroid Hitting Earth 2024 Date Orlando. Asteroid 2024 on, sized roughly 720 feet in diameter, will safely pass earth today at a distance of 997,793 kilometers—more than 2.5 times the distance between the earth and the moon. A potentially hazardous asteroid named 2024 on is reportedly hurtling toward earth at 25,000 mph, expected to pass by on september 15, 2025.

Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of. Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of earth on friday.