Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has small chance of striking the Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032 The space rock is between 131 feet (40 meters) to 295 feet (90 meters) or a little less than the ...

All of that was in the background as I was trying to make a decision. I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to ...