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  • New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

    01/29/2025 8:43:29 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | January 28, 2025 | Isaac Schultz Published January 28, 2025
    2024 YR4 is a newly spotted asteroid with the potential to hit Earth... A 1.2% chance the asteroid hits Earth based on very preliminary calculations. Which means—obviously—a 98.8% chance the rocky object misses us! The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first spotted 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024. At that point the asteroid was 515,116 miles (829,000 kilometers) from Earth. The asteroid is currently moving away from our planet but its next close approach will occur in December 2028. CNEOS reports that the asteroid is 180 feet (55 meters) across, and its speed at (potential) impact estimated at 10.76...
  • ‘City-killer’ asteroid is hurtling by Earth — and scientists are warning of its potential impact

    02/02/2025 4:35:31 PM PST · by Libloather · 53 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/02/25 | Hannah Sparks
    An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than an atomic bomb has triggered global space agency alarms. The odds that the space rock dubbed Y4, which is nearly the size of a football field at between 130 and 300 feet wide, could hit Earth is now too close to ignore, they warn. “If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week. The asteroid was first observed on...