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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer a significant threat to Earth

Ars Technica · 1d

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may be a dud, but we will soon find many more threats

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep breath and return to the more pressing existential problems posed by threats on this planet, rather than off-world.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines

YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies previously projected a 3% chance of the asteroid striking our planet before lowering the chance to 0.

Live Mint on MSN · 1d

Asteroid 2024 YR4 more likely to smash into the Moon? Here's what scientists predict about earth-asteroid collision

NASA has revised the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, reducing it to 0.28%. There are indications it may collide with the Moon instead.

Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Phys.org · 16h

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.

USA Today · 4d

Could an asteroid really hit Earth? Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 reach highest levels ever

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the threat once posed by Apophis.

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s chances of colliding with Earth drop near zero

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.

‘Threat-to-Earth’: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch NASA’s asteroid hunter telescope

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch an advanced asteroid hunter telescope that will detect and observe asteroids that could pose ...

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SpaceX to Put an Asteroid Hunter in Orbit, Gets $100 Million for the Job

Over the past few weeks word of an asteroid called YR4 started making the rounds. Discovered in December last year, it made ...

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Odds of 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 fall once again, now to 0.28%, NASA says

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.

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That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all

With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

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An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen, and should we worry?

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

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NASA announces SpaceX will launch NEO Surveyor to track killer asteroids

NASA announced the NEO Surveyor mission, which aims to detect and track asteroids that could pose a catastrophic threat to our planet.

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