Flipboard Science DeskAn asteroid impacted Earth’s atmosphere just hours after being spotted in October, avoiding detection by impact monitoring systems as it approached Earth. Luckily, the object, which was the third ‘imminent impactor’ of 2024, measured just 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and wasn’t a threat to anything on the ground. Read more from @Space.com@Flipboard.com about planetary defense efforts that catalog objects posing threats to Earth.
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