Moment 'planet-killing' asteroids skim past Earth is captured by NASA

A pair of 'planet-killing' asteroids — one recently discovered and another towing its own moon — were caught on video by as they hurtled past Earth last week.

Scientists with the US space agency's tracked and imaged the two monster space rocks via the 230-foot-wide Goldstone Radar, which also measured these objects' dimensions.

Asteroid 2024 MK, first spotted just 13 days before it , was determined to be a 500-feet long, 'elongated and angular' object per NASA's radar that captured it skim our planet on Saturday.

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