An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential tocollide with Earth in 2032was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned — before additional analysis Thursday lowered the chances to about 0.28%,according to NASA'sCenter for Near-...
" NASA said in its latest analysis.The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency
The risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth at the end of 2032 has increased again, according to NASA data. Latest calculations have shown a 3.1% chance of the space rock making impact in just under eight years. It is a significant change since the European Space Agency (ESA)estimated...
Newly Spotted Asteroid Has a Tiny Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032 More Uncredited FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. (NASA ...
On Jan. 27, the asteroid surpassed a 1 percent chance of hitting Earth, an “important threshold,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Currently, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%,” NASA said in apress release. ...
According to CNN, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies recently stated that an asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. (CNN) ...
A recently discovered asteroid, named2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a3.1% chanceof hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency’s risk assessment sits at2.8%. ...
One astronomer, David Rankin, said in a post on social media that the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting earth “have slightly increased to 1 in 83.” Rankin is an engineer at the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded project based at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed theriskiest asteroid on recordlast week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according toNASAand theEuropean Space Agency. NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032, w...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 continues to keep us on our toes as astronomers work to determine its potential threat to our planet, but the latest update is good news because chances of a 2032 Earth impact have dropped.