Susie Ethelind

Doomsday Asteroid 2024. The asteroid watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to earth. Just hours later, it struck our planet’s atmosphere 50 km west of berlin, producing a stunning fireball.

Estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across, apophis quickly gained notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to earth when astronomers predicted. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate.