Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to ...
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Watch 'potentially hazardous' asteroid fly near Earth this weekend in this free livestream
The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream views of the asteroid's close approach online. An asteroid ...
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‘City-killer’ asteroid now on crash course with the moon after Earth likely to dodge a direct hit
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
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"City-killer" asteroid changes course; Here's where it may strike now
Asteroid 2024 YR4 initially had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but NASA revised the probability to almost zero. However, observations now suggest a 2% chance of it striking the moon ...
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Asteroid YR4 won’t hit Earth, but scientists can’t rule out a moon hit
But on Feb. 20, CNEOS said that risk had fallen to about 1.5 per cent. Regarding the most recent drop in impact risk, NASA wrote, “New observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 helped us update its ...
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Asteroid Large Enough to Destroy an Entire City Could Still Strike the Moon in 2032, Scientists Say
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made two planned observations of the asteroid 2024 YR4, and found in the first observation on Feb. 5 that 2024 YR4 could be slightly larger and rockier than ...
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The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...
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City-killer asteroid chances of hitting Moon increase slightly
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size ...
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Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit Moon
But only one has been tested on an actual asteroid. In 2022, NASA's DART mission successfully altered a harmless asteroid's trajectory by smashing a spacecraft into it. While no one wanted to need ...
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Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it
For a few weeks in January and February this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 had us all worried. Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting ...
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NASA catches a glimpse of 'city-killer' asteroid before it disappears until 2028
Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...