South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting ...
But on some worlds, including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA’s Dawn mission explored, the surfaces also contain deep channels, or gullies, whose origins are not fully understood. A prime ...
New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
"No specific asteroid, or family of asteroids ... which originate from the Vesta parent body, whose radius is larger than 162 miles (260 km). The scientists set out to analyze the UV-Vis-NIR ...
YR4 impacting the earth in 2032 have officially been ruled out by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists with ...