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The city-killer asteroid's Moon impact risk has almost more than doubled, according to new NASA reports. Here's what we know.
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to ...
A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...
In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid ...
YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting the moon in December 2032, a slight rise from NASA’s February estimate of 1.7%.
‘There is still a 96.2 per cent chance that the asteroid will miss the Moon,’ NASA said in a statement on Thursday ... be ...
NASA reported an increased likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting the Moon on 22 December 2032, with chances rising to 3.8 ...
"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the Moon," NASA said in a statement ... for planetary defence purposes," he added. Mark Burchell, a space scientist at the UK's ...
Still, a small chance remained that it could strike the Moon instead ... a visible mark. Although the odds remain low, astronomers say they’ll continue to closely monitor the asteroid’s ...