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New asteroid has a chance of impacting Earth in 2032
The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the approximately 150-foot-wide asteroid was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Dec.
'City-killer' asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, NASA says
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Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032
"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us."
Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032
The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for the first time
Newly Spotted Asteroid Has a Tiny Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not worried at all,
Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032.
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Over 1% Chance Of Earth Impact
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.
NASA fears newly spotted football pitch sized asteroid could crash into Earth
An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Is 2024 PT5 a lost piece of the Moon or an asteroid? Unravel the mystery behind Earth’s mini-moon
PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...
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Elon Musk's Tesla mistaken for asteroid in near-Earth collision scare
However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification ...
NASA’s Historic Asteroid Sample Holds Clues to Life’s Origins
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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UAE: New asteroid may collide with Earth in 2032 and it may reach India, say experts
Its diameter is similar to the asteroid that caused the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908, where a meteorite explosion ...