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An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...
Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet ... The yellow dots show the position uncertainty of asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was originally thought to have a 1 in 83 1.3% chance of colliding with Earth. And while the new numbers may seem striking, there’s still a 97.7% chance the asteroid will miss ...
The asteroid's minor planet provisional designation 2024 YR 4 was given by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] "2024" indicates the year of the asteroid's discovery and the first letter "Y" indicates it was discovered during the second half-month of December in that year. [19]
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 MK is a near-Earth object with a diameter around 150 meters that flew past Earth on June 29, 2024. [1] It was discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 16 June 2024. [2] This asteroid travels in both the main-belt and in the near-Earth region. It passed Earth on 29 June 2024 at a distance of 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers).
The planet was struck by two other asteroids this year that were similarly detected only a few hours before. One, dubbed 2024 BX1 and measuring about a metre across, burned up over Berlin in ...
2024 RW 1, previously known under its provisional designation CAQTDL2, [5] was a 1-meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on September 5, 2024, at around 12:40 a.m. PHT (September 4, 16:40 UTC) above the western Pacific Ocean near Cagayan, Philippines.