Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than 10 meters has a greater than 1 percent chance of striking Earth within the next 20 years. The risk of 2024 YR4 meets this threshold.
There's A 2.3% Chance Of An Asteroid Hitting Earth In 2032, And The Internet Has A Lot To Say About It
The asteroid named "2024 YR4," which is about the size of a football field, now has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. That's up from 1.3%. That little fact has hit the internet and people are reacting exactly how you'd imagine.
A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
NASA Warns World-Breaker Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2023, But It Is Only a One-in-43 Chance
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 1.9% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, but NASA said there's nothing to be worried about.
Expert says spacecraft could deflect asteroid that has 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.
Huge Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032. Here's How We Could Stop It
Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 - how worried should we be?
The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we should be scrambling to prepare for an impact in 2032?
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NASA DART Team Confirms Slamming Spacecraft Into Asteroids Can Deflect Them
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...
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Good News About Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again
YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...
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Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...
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DART Asteroid Impact Seen From Ground Observatory And Cubesat
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid is hurtling by Earth — and scientists are warning of its potential impact
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...
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Impact odds for 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 are on the rise
We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...