Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
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Asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 now may slam into Moon instead
YR4 was originally calculated to have a 3.1% probability of impacting our planet on December 22, 2032. The post Asteroid that ...
NASA shocker: Asteroid feared to strike Earth now on course to obliterate the Moon, scientists warn
NASA has updated its estimates for asteroid 2024 YR4, initially thought to hit Earth. The risk of an Earth impact in 2032 has ...
NASA Tracking Car-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in ... in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit the planet. Given the small but not impossible chance ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling ... been analysing clumps of rock from Bennu since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
strike it and change the asteroid's path by up to 620 miles (1,000 km). This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth’s orbit, giving it a chance to impact.
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‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. via REUTERS We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth ...
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Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge
Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking ... asteroids close enough to cross Earth's orbit will have multiple attempts to hit the bullseye. "Among asteroids, we must ...