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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

YR4 has a 2% 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.

NPR · 6d

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 football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

Space on MSN · 4d

What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028."

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Telescope Captures "City-Killer" Asteroid, NASA Tracking Potential Threat

A newly discovered asteroid has climbed to the top of NASA's impact risk list after fresh observations doubled its chances of ...

9hon MSN

NASA tracking 'Mega-Bomb' Asteroid—Could it strike Mumbai or Bogotá?

Concerns rise over asteroid 2024 YR4, now with a 2.6% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, according to NASA. Initially detected in 2024, the asteroid poses a Level 3 threat, potentially impacting ...

WTOP News3d

An asteroid has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here’s how astronomers are tracking it

(CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space ...

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