Watch the Orbit Animation of Recent 3-Foot Asteroid Impacting Earth 🌍

A small asteroid, roughly 3 feet wide, recently struck the Pacific Ocean. Discover its orbit and see the animation of its journey to Earth, detected just in time by the ATLAS survey.

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Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by the ATLAS survey on the day it struck Earth.

Credit: Space.com | animation: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta

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