Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.
Observations of its impact trajectory suggested it might have ... from the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014 January 8 (IM1) Bolide, Research Notes of the AAS (2024). DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172 ...
It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century ... just like the Chelyabinsk bolide, which was never noticed by humans until it was breaking ...
making Luna the biggest crater to result from an iron bolide within the last 10,000 years," the study said. "We can only confirm that the impact happened within the last 6,900 years. We need to ...