Asteroid 2024 Mk Live. On june 29, just 13 days after it was discovered, 2024 mk reached its closest point to earth as it skimmed our planet's orbit at a distance of around 184,000 miles (295,000. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to earth.

If you want to try and spot the asteroid yourself using a backyard telescope or pair of binoculars, you can use a tracking tool like the sky live, which puts 2024 mk’s current. Assembled into this animation, observations from nasa’s goldstone solar system radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 mk shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on june 29.