Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines
A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...
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Ceres’ Mysterious Organic Material Likely Came from Space
S cientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. While many believed it emerged from the dwarf planet’s own cryovolcanic ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR 4 no longer has chance of hitting Earth in 2032, says NASA
NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. While its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%, they have now dropped to near ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...
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Planet-rattling asteroid has better odds of hitting Earth; what to know about 2024 YR4
The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in the near future has leapt from having a near-zero chance of occurring to having roughly a 3 percent chance. While that may not seem like a ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth in 2032 are now effectively zero
2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid on NASA’s automated Sentry list of potentially hazardous asteroids to the seventh highest position. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its ...
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Asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, but NASA lowers impact probability to 0.3%
A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that ...
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Asteroid hurtling toward Earth? Odds for impact keep increasing
Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale Asteroid's impact risk corridor spans multiple continents NASA telescope will get closer look at object in March Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches ...
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That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all
Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid. ESA-Science Office It seems that Earth isn’t likely to be struck by ...