NASA Shares Observations of Recently-Identified Near Earth Asteroid
Jan 29, 2025 · The asteroid, which is estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, caught astronomers’ attention when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list on Dec. 31, 2024. The Sentry list includes any known near-Earth asteroids that have a non-zero probability of impacting Earth in the future.
Chances of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade has nearly ...
10 hours ago · A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers ...
NASA Continues to Monitor Orbit of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4
3 days ago · As more observations of the asteroid’s orbit are obtained, its impact probability will become better known. It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will be ruled out as an impact hazard, as has happened with many other objects that have previously appeared on NASA’s asteroid risk list, maintained by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object ...
"City-killer" asteroid's odds of crashing into Earth go up as Webb ...
15 hours ago · The European Space Agency in January placed the asteroid's odds of hitting Earth at roughly 1%, before NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimated the risk was more like 1.6% at the tail end of the ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale
Feb 1, 2025 · CNEOS analysis of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, which is estimated to be about 40 to 90 meters wide, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032 — which also means there is almost a 99% chance this asteroid will not impact. ... 2024 YR4 was discovered on December 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial ...
Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon …
Jan 22, 2025 · The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months. The asteroid, which is about 33 feet (10 meters) wide, does not pose a hazard to Earth, but its orbit around the Sun closely matches that of our planet ...
Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of ... - NASA
Jan 22, 2025 · Researchers studying asteroid 2024 PT5 have plotted its looping motion on two graphs. To a trained eye, they show that the object never gets captured by Earth’s gravity but, instead, lingers nearby before continuing its orbit around the Sun.
Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Jan 29, 2025 · A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday the chance of impact is slightly more than 1%. ... First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 meters) across. ...
Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close …
Jul 3, 2024 · Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet. One turned out to have a little moon orbiting it, while the other had been discovered only 13 days before its closest approach to Earth.