NASA Upgrades, Then Lowers Odds Of Asteroid Hitting Earth — Here’s Why
As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032
New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...
‘God of Chaos’ asteroid could hit Earth three years before ‘city killer’ space rock
While NASA tracks asteroid 2024 YR4, the 'God of Chaos' space rock known as Apophis could hit Earth years sooner ...
NASA reduces likelihood of asteroid impacting earth to 1.5%
NASA said Wednesday that new data collected overnight cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. The ...
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'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...
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Earth could be saved from ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024YR4 by it hitting MOON instead…& we’d see 8 megaton blast from here
A direct hit could be as if a 10-megaton nuclear bomb struck Earth. But the potentially hazardous boulder has a 0.3% chance of colliding with our natural satellite - the moon. The enormous ...
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Watch the sun erupt in new images from NOAA's weather satellite
Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit moon instead of Earth
There is also a small possibility that the cosmic chunk could hit the moon ... Will make a large crater on the moon Because the Earth's satellite has no atmosphere, the asteroid will reach ...
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NASA says ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
Unlike the Earth, our natural satellite lacks an atmosphere to shield it, so YR4 would hit at around 48,280 km per hour, according to the New Scientist. This would potentially generate an ...
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'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
"There is the possibility this would eject some material back out that could hit the Earth, but I highly doubt it would cause any major threat," Rankin told New Scientist. That does not mean we ...
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Scientists Say ‘City Killer’ Asteroid Could Hit the Moon Instead of Us — So What Happens Then?
Even though the odds of crashing into Earth are quite low, if it does bang into the planet, a catastrophe would be unleashed.