Scientists have found an asteroid that might smash into the Earth ... 2024 YR4 is expected to again fly past Earth on Dec. 17, 2028, on a track that has been calculated to safely miss our ...
Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4 ... 98 per cent chance that it will sail harmlessly past Earth. It is also thought to be relatively small ...
One of them will come within just 77,200 miles of our planet, which is roughly one-third of the average distance between Earth and the moon. That asteroid ... as they go. Occasionally, the ...
that probability will go to zero," said Betts. A similar scenario unfolded in 2004 with Apophis, an asteroid initially projected to have a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029. Further ...
Asteroid 2024 PT5 ... "unless you go and bring a sample back, you cannot tell for sure," said Vishnu Reddy, a professor ...
A 90-metre-long asteroid has a chance of slamming into the moon and missing Earth in 2035, despite earlier calculations ... “There have been several objects in the past that have risen on the ...
that probability will go to zero." A similar scenario unfolded in 2004 with Apophis, an asteroid initially projected to have a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029. Further observations ...