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The estimated flight path of an asteroid the size of Big Ben’s tower will see it pass over some of the world’s most populous cities, according to the latest data from Nasa.. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path.
The asteroid, officially known as 2024 YR4, recently flew past Earth and is on its way back in 2032. Recent estimates had suggested that there was a chance it could collide with Earth when it did.
The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] 2024 indicates the discovery year, the first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December (16 to 31 December) of that year, and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional ...
In recent days, there has been increasing alarm about 2024 YR4, an asteroid that is on course to fly towards Earth in 2023. There is a roughly 2.3 per cent chance that it will collide with Earth.
2024 ON is a near-Earth object with a length around 350 meters [2] that flew past Earth on 17 September 2024 at a distance of 620,000 miles (1,000,000 km). [3] It was discovered by ATLAS-MLO, Mauna Kea on 27 July 2024. [2] Radar observations showed that 2024 ON is a contact binary.
2024 XA 1, formerly designated as C0WEPC5, is a small meteoroid that fell over eastern Siberia near the city of Olekminsk on 3 December 2024, 16:15 GMT, around 1,000 kilometers east of the Tunguska event impact location. [4] [5] It is the eleventh impact event ever that was successfully predicted, and the fourth in 2024.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 also rates 3 of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a method for astronomers to categorize and rate the threat of near-Earth objects. The scale ranges from 0 (no chance of ...