Asteroid Heading Toward Earth 2024. The european space agency has announced that its new ramses. — the mission—which was a first test of the kind of asteroid deflection defense that could be used to protect the earth from an incoming space rock—worked spectacularly.
— dubbed 2024 bxi, the asteroid ultimately entered earth’s atmosphere near berlin, generating a luminous yet benign fireball visible over a wide area. — imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole.