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Asteroid 2024 YR4: Experts analyze 2% Earth impact risk in 2032
Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Scientists are ...
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An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032. Here’s what it could look like after impact...
This stunning volcano footage is just a glimpse of nature’s power—imagine what a city-killing asteroid could do if it struck your home… A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has jumped to the top of ...
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Threat of newly-discovered asteroid hitting Earth has risen
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...
Expert shares key facts about asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
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Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
station in Chile first reported the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, on December 27, 2024. Within a few days it had risen to the top of NASA’s Sentry risk table and the European Space Agency’s near ...
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Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision ... On 30 June 1908, there was a vast explosion in a sparsely populated part of Siberia.
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A ‘city-killer’ asteroid might hit Earth – how worried should we be?
when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters exploded over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees across 770 square miles (2,000 square kilometers). Like that impactor, 2024 YR4 would ...
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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 ...
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A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth -- how worried should we be?
The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters exploded over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees across 770 square miles (2,000 ...