First on the list is the massive 118.061-mile radius Vredefort Crater located in Free State, South Africa, which hit 2 billion years ago. Second is the 80.7783-mile radius Sudbury Basin located in Ontario, Canada, which hit 1.8 billion years ago. Third is the 55.9234-mile radius Acraman Crater in South Australia, Australia which hit Earth 580 Also, some 50,000 years ago, an iron asteroid hit what is today Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow on the Colorado Plateau, creating a crater 0.75 miles (1.2 kilometers) across and about 600 About 108 million years ago, an asteroid or comet impacted the Moon and formed the 86 kilometers (53.4 miles) wide Tycho crater — a bright feature you can see from Earth! The dinosaurs would’ve been alive and thriving to witness this event, only to be wiped out alongside roughly 70% of life on Earth 42 million years later when an asteroid 5 Last modified on Tue 7 Feb 2023 07.16 EST. An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will pass Earth in one of the closest such encounters ever recorded – coming within a tenth of the distance of Four of the five asteroids will pass by Earth on Friday: RG, RH, QC5 and GE, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports. First discovered in 2023, RG is a bus-size asteroid and will come within 1. NASA System Predicts Impact of Small Asteroid. This animation shows asteroid 2022 EB5's predicted orbit around the Sun before impacting into the Earth’s atmosphere on March 11, 2022. The asteroid – estimated to be about 6 ½ feet (2 meters) wide – was discovered only two hours before impact. Asteroid 2022 EB5 was too small to pose a NASA believes that on Earth, the chance of a major meteor or asteroid making impact is extremely unlikely. A recent study of Bennu, the asteroid widely considered to be the most likely to hit Earth, showed a 1-in-1,750 chance of a future collision over the next three centuries. The asteroid has made several close approaches to Earth in the past and is expected to make at least three more over the next three decades, according to spacereference.org. 1994 XD is not the EN5VJwD.