65 h. ago 'I'm a planetary scientist – here's why I wouldn't lose sleep over asteroid 2024 YR4'

A scientist has explained why the impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 has risen and fallen

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69 h. ago NASA halves odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth after highest ever impact risk

The odds of an asteroid smashing into Earth in 2032 have just fallen

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2 d. ago The chances of this asteroid hitting Earth keep rising. But there are three reasons I’m not worried yet | Carrie Nugent

Scientists are closely monitoring 2024 YR4 – and while it’s relatively small, it reminds us of the dangers lurking in spaceCarrie Nugent is an associate professor of computational physics and planetary science and author of Asteroid HuntersTwo days after Christmas, the Atlas sky survey team discovered a new rocky object in Earth’s astronomical neighbourhood. Atlas discovers near-Earth objects all the time: in 2024, the team discovered 167 of them. They also codiscovered comet Tsuchinshan–Atlas, which dazzled sky gazers last autumn. But this discovery was special: there’s a chance the 40-90 metre object, known as 2024 YR4, will hit Earth in 2032.In January, the impact probability was estimated to be just over 1%, then it was raised to 2.3% in early February. As of this week, the Nasa JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies has raised that to 3.1% – or about 1-in-32 chance of impact. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago The chances of this asteroid hitting Earth keep rising. But there are four reasons I’m not worried yet | Carrie Nugent

Scientists are closely monitoring 2024 YR4 – and while it’s relatively small, it reminds us of the dangers lurking in spaceCarrie Nugent is an associate professor of computational physics and planetary science and author of Asteroid HuntersTwo days after Christmas, the Atlas sky survey team discovered a new rocky object in Earth’s astronomical neighbourhood. Atlas discovers near-Earth objects all the time: in 2024, the team discovered 167 of them. They also codiscovered comet Tsuchinshan–Atlas, which dazzled sky gazers last autumn. But this discovery was special: there’s a chance the 40-90 metre object, known as 2024 YR4, will hit Earth in 2032.In January, the impact probability was estimated to be just over 1%, then it was raised to 2.3% in early February. As of this week, the Nasa JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies has raised that to 3.1% – or about 1-in-32 chance of impact. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago NASA Asteroid 2024 YR4 'city killer' puts 100 million people at risk in collision course

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a one-in-32 chance of hitting Earth according to NASA scientists, and would be 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima should it make impact

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3 d. ago Scientist reveals why asteroid 2024 YR4's chances of Earth impact keep rising as NASA bumps odds again

There is now a one-in-32 chance that the an asteroid will hit our home planet in 2032

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3 d. ago Risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth reaches highest level in history

NASA believes the 100m-wide Asteroid 2024 YR4 will change course and head towards Earth.

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3 d. ago These are the cities most at risk from the Asteroid 2024 YR4 that could hit Earth, says NASA

The impact risk corridor will take the city killer over some of the most populated places in the world, according to NASA data

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5 d. ago Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100 million people live in risk corridor, Nasa data shows

Asteroid’s destructive potential is 500 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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