NASA Tracking Three Plane-Sized Asteroids Approaching Earth Today
NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.
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‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises and Falls Again
The asteroid’s impact probability will continue to evolve—likely diminishing to zero—but 2024 YR4 will officially remain an object of concern so long as its estimated chance of striking Earth remains ...
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How would an asteroid strike affect life on Earth?
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 ... disappears from view before space agencies can rule out any chance of impact, the space ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
But the chance of an impact is still quite ... Space Telescope will observe this near-Earth asteroid in March before the object disappears from view. Once that happens, scientists will have ...