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The asteroid, named Asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1.3 per cent – or one in 83 – chance of striking Earth on December 22 in 2032.

YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...

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YR₄ has now been observed hundreds of times, but an impact still cannot be ruled out. The first images are also available.