NASA issues warning: Asteroid the size of a stadium will approach Earth tomorrow

NASA has issued a warning that an asteroid the size of a stadium could come close to Earth on Tuesday.

Asteroid 2024 ON has a diameter of 290 meters (950 feet) and will come within a million kilometers of Earth, according to the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The space rock last flew past Earth in 2013 and will approach it again in 2035, according to NASA.

The object was first discovered by NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, which uses observatories around the world to discover undiscovered NEOs.

It is being tracked by the Virtual Telescope Project, which captured the “potentially dangerous” asteroid on September 9 at its speed of about 40,000 kilometers per hour.

Since 2024 ON reaches a minimum distance of 2.6 times the average distance to the Moon, it poses no threat to Earth on its current trajectory. However, even a small deviation could have serious consequences.

Due to its enormous size, the asteroid is 99 percent larger than any other near-Earth object, but it does not come close enough to be seen without a telescope.

On the same day that the moon comes closest to Earth, skywatchers can instead observe a rare partial lunar eclipse coinciding with a supermoon.

The celestial spectacle will be visible throughout Europe and Africa, and observations will also be possible in parts of North and South America and Asia.

Later in the month, a smaller asteroid will become a temporary “mini moon” by being pulled into orbit around Earth for two months.

The asteroid 2024 PT5 has a diameter of only 10 meters, according to a new study published in the journal AAS Research Notesand was once part of the moon.

According to the study, it will remain in Earth's orbit from September 29 to November 25.