Asteroid Headed Towards Earth 2024. Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere.
Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on june 29. In the hypothetical scenario, an asteroid collides with the earth in 2038.