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.
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...
Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...
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While the asteroid's possibly collision with earth wouldn't be until 2032, there's been a lot of talk about the possibility ...
The chances of an asteroid as large as the width of an NFL field striking Earth continue to tick up, according to NASA.
A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...
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