Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
Since its discovery, the asteroid’s probability of an impact with our planet has gone all over the place. At one point, the risk rose as high as 3.1%. This may not sound like a lot, until you realise that that is a 1 in 32 chance of collision.
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
While the chance of a collision remains relatively low, experts are closely monitoring its trajectory due to the possibility ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...
Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson makes feelings clear on 'city killer' asteroid with 600x power of Hiroshima bomb
Tyson said that although the impact would be 'completely devastating' if it hit an urban area, the chances are extremely slim ...
Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...
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