I was dismayed to read yesterday (27 June 2024) that Asteroid 2024 MK, measuring between 120 and 260 meters, was first discovered on 16 June 2024, and that it will pass within 290,000 kilometers (180,000 miles) of earth on 29 June 2024. For publicly available details, please see: https://www.earth.com/news/two-large-as ... this-week/ .
How is it that the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) failed to warn of this danger sooner? I hope that some accounting for this troubling early detection failure will be made publicly and widely available soon. Thanks!
How is it that the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) failed to warn of this danger sooner? I hope that some accounting for this troubling early detection failure will be made publicly and widely available soon. Thanks!
Statistics: Posted by smitty — Fri Jun 28, 2024 11:38 am — Replies 0 — Views 10