Asteroid 2024 Bx12.  — the asteroid, named 2020 bx12, was seen by puerto rico's arecibo observatory, which recently reopened after a wave of earthquakes in january. The dashboard displays the next five earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon);

An object larger than about. 27, scientists using a telescope on mauna loa in hawaii spotted an asteroid that astronomers hadn’t seen before.