YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...

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As Space.com points out, while the chances of the asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 have nearly doubled, the chances that it won’t haven’t halved. This is one of those times when numbers can ...

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Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

“Basically, the more observations we get, the more we can localize and confirm the asteroid’s trajectory, which is most likely to turn out to be a flyby, and not an impact,” the European ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out ... at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it might pose a threat to Earth. The space ...