Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope To Study Asteroid 2024 YR4 As Impact Risk Rises
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...
Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...
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Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station in Chile first reported the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, on December 27, 2024. Within a few days it had risen to the ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses 1.2% collision risk with Earth in 2032
2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, has been calculated to be 1.2%.
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‘City-killer’ asteroid has 1.6% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40-90 ...
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Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
It’s only a question of when. Which brings us to our latest contender — asteroid 2024 YR4. 2024 YR4 has been under close observation by astronomers for a little over a month. It was discovered ...
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A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth. How worried should we be?
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 ...
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A ‘city-killer’ asteroid might hit Earth – how worried should we be?
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December ... “I don’t see why it wouldn’t work” again, he said. The bigger question is whether major nations would fund such a mission ...
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This newly discovered large asteroid risks hitting Earth
A recently discovered asteroid, named "2024 YR4", could cross Earth's trajectory in December 2032. With an estimated impact probability of 1.2%, this celestial body measuring 40 to 100 meters (130 to ...
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Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 collide with Earth in 2032? What you need to know
However, it would be an exaggeration to suggest that the space rock in question threatens a climatic catastrophe for the future of civilisation as we know it. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has earned a spot at ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4, over 50m in size, could hit Earth: Report
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about half the width of a football field and will pass very close to Earth on December 22, 2032, coming within approximately 106,200 km Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object ...