The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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'It's like taking a picture of lightning': How astronomers raced to track the smallest asteroid ever seen"the best you usually can do is, you take a bunch of pictures and hope one of them has the flash in it." Researchers suspect the vast majority of the 330-pound (150 kilograms) asteroid vaporized ...
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Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up. Here's why experts say you shouldn't worryThe chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 appear to have doubled, but an asteroid hunter explains to ...
The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close approach with Earth,” according to JPL, becoming ...
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