"Predicting and Observing Asteroid Impacts Across Europe"
NASA's Scout impact assessment system successfully predicted the impact of a small 3-foot asteroid, 2024 BX1, over Germany, providing advance warning of its trajectory and time of impact. This marks the eighth time a small Earth-bound asteroid has been detected while still in space. While these tiny asteroids pose no threat to life on Earth, they serve as valuable demonstrations of NASA's planetary defense capabilities. The agency's efforts in tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) are becoming more sophisticated, with the data gathered from such events informing NASA's mitigation strategies for potential future impacts.