Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 'That's impact probability zero folks!'
YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the 1-in-1000 threshold.
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson makes feelings clear on 'city killer' asteroid with 600x power of Hiroshima bombRenowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has made his feelings clear on asteroid 2024 YR4, the “city killing” space rock ...
Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...
It’s been a snowier-than-average February in Coeur d’Alene and the rest of the Inland Northwest. As of the weekend, about two feet of snow has fallen at Cliff’s station this month, compared to a ...
A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.
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