NASA’s Webb Telescope To Study Asteroid 2024 YR4 As Impact Risk Rises
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...
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Newfound Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032, Scientists Say
telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4: The space rock with a 1 in 83 chance of impacting Earth in 2032
NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected the asteroid that they now call 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024. It identified the space rock moving at high speed through ...
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Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
But astronomers who are keeping a close eye on the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, expect that the probability will more than likely fall to zero as more observations and data about its flight path ...
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Asteroid ‘could head for Earth’, researchers say, but when and where could it strike?
Researchers from Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey discovered what has become known as Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas. On January 28, the asteroid was placed at level 3 in the Torino impact hazard ...
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Asteroid 2024 Pt5
Asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered near Earth in 2024, is suspected to be a fragment from the Moon’s surface. Researchers found its composition matches lunar rock samples, specifically silicate-rich ...