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A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered an asteroid in 2024 that had a small chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4 ...
(In real life, the asteroid came within 4 million miles ... percent of all NEOs 140 meters or wider — not big enough to end the world, but big enough to destroy a city. Though over 18,000 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...
Most of them are concentrated within the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. However, some may end up circulating into the inner solar system.