An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
Exact date newly-discovered 'city killer' asteroid could hit Earth revealed
We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, ...
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A newly discovered asteroid has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Spotting an asteroid that’s new to science The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope located in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spied the space rock on December 27.
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Astronomers Discover an Asteroid With a 1.6 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—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 ...
Newfound 'city-killer' asteroid has chance of hitting Earth in 2032
On December 22, 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...
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There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2023, on a 2.2 billion-mile (3.5 billion kilometers) journey to arrive at the asteroid in August 2029. It will then take at least 21 months to map ...