‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises and Falls Again
The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s illustration. But astronomers can’t yet rule out a potentially catastrophic encounter projected for December 2032.
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YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.
Astronomers at NASA say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 - but ...
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