Asteroid 2024 Bx1100. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest. The final detection of asteroid 2024 bx1 (initially known as sar2736 prior to impact) obtained by luca buzzi from the schiaparelli observatory in italy.

The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere.