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Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats
Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.
NASA Issues Update on 'City-Killer' Asteroid's Chances of Hitting Earth
Space agencies monitoring the Y24 asteroid said there was a 2.6-percent chance of impact with Earth, up from 2.2 percent a ...
NASA Makes Big Update to Asteroid Potentially on Collision Course With Earth in 2032
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...
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NASA: These are the countries that the most dangerous asteroid could hit in 2032
The American NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are actively monitoring the movement of the asteroid YR4, which has ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new high
The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...
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NASA lowers impact risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 — but we’re not out of the woods
If you move the stick in your hand a fraction of an inch, you hardly notice any movement on the other end,” the asteroid tracker said. “Now imagine that stick is many millions of miles long.
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Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
The asteroid making so much news today ranks as ... protect lives and property include evacuation of the impact area and movement of critical infrastructure.” Sheltering in place is also an ...
GPUs powering AI will probably be the end of us all but at least they're being used to find small city smashing asteroids before they do
While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... Pan-STARRS is currently part of the effort to follow 2024 YR4’s movements. “Hawaiʻi’s telescopes are some of the most important ...