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Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
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"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.
What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?
February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 per cent
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For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its trajectory using some of the most powerful telescopes on the planet.
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines
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Can the ‘city-killer’ asteroid which could destroy Kolkata, Mumbai be stopped?
The chances of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting Earth are minimal. However, the potential devastation would be massive.
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Probability of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade increases, NASA says
The elongated shape of the orbit takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Because of the unusual orbit ...
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Could an asteroid could hit Earth in 2032? Here's what to know.
2024 YR4 follows a highly elliptical, four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets before shooting past Mars and out toward Jupiter. "City killer" category The most infamous asteroid impact ...