Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines
The 2024 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 0.28% last week.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about itYR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
It is estimated that ~25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids, and other space debris enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, and ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Impact Probability Jumps to 3.1%The impact probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has just been raised to 3.1%—the highest ever recorded for a near-Earth object!
YR4 once held a 3.1% impact chance, with the power of 500 Hiroshima bombs. Though the risk dropped, future asteroid threats ...
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