Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines
The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies previously projected a 3% chance of the asteroid striking our planet before lowering the chance to 0.28% last week.
While the asteroid's possibly collision with earth wouldn't be until 2032, there's been a lot of talk about the possibility ...
University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are helping track an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, including the Canada-France-HawaiʻiTelescope, the ...
YR4 once held a 3.1% impact chance, with the power of 500 Hiroshima bombs. Though the risk dropped, future asteroid threats ...
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