Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
Russia burns as massive oil refinery and Moscow targeted in new wave of attacks
Massive flames and black acrid smoke rose into the night's sky following the strike, with the blaze rapidly spreading to ...
Chances of asteroid approaching Earth doubling in 2032
NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.
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Scientists track asteroid that has a chance of crashing into Earth in 2032
2024 YR4 is estimated to be 130-300 feet across. It is roughly the same size as a meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013, injuring about 1,000 people and damaging 3000 buildings. The asteroid is ...
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Asteroid YR4
In 2013, something similar happened when an asteroid the size of a house exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia. It smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people.