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C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a partially disintegrated non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun. Dubbed the Great Comet of 2025 , it is currently the brightest comet of 2025, [ 6 ] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [ 5 ]
Asteroid 2024 YR4, detected by telescopes on December 27, 2024, is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, comparable to a large building, and could cause local devastation if it ...
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The object was then first reported on Dec. 27, 2024 to the Minor Planet Center, the official authority for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system ...
The fastest asteroid to pass within 1 LD of Earth in 2024 was 2024 CH 4 that passed Earth with a velocity with respect to Earth of 24.01 km/s (53,700 mph), [4] while the slowest bypass within lunar distance was that of 2024 VO at a velocity with respect to Earth of 3.08 km/s (6,900 mph).
The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system. Between 29 September (19:54 UTC) and 25 November 2024 (16:43 UTC) (a period of 1 month and 27 days) [4] it passed just outside Earth's Hill sphere (roughly 0.01 AU [1.5 million km; 0.93 million mi]) at a low relative velocity (in the range 0.002 km/s (4.5 mph) – 0.439 km/s [980 mph]) and became temporarily ...
A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.