Asteroid 2024 Mt101. The deep space network’s goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 mk and 2011 ul21 as they safely passed earth. A small asteroid, 2024 pt5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep.

Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to earth. A small asteroid, 2024 pt5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep.