Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...
YR4: Asteroid 2024 YR4 might spare Earth but it poses a threat to Moon. The asteroid that had a good chance of crashing onto ...
YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.
Now new predictions of the moon-asteroid collision have surfaced. US space agency NASA in a post on X stated, “New data gathered last night (Feb. 19-20) dropped the December 2032 impact odds of ...
NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon ...
NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of ... Rankin told Live Science that, based on current estimates, a collision with the moon could release more energy than 340 Hiroshima bombs.
He added that any material ejected from the collision would likely burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Throughout its history, the moon has been subject to countless asteroid bombardments, as can be ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is the size of a football ... the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, also said a collision with the moon could release more energy than 340 Hiroshima bombs.
Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the ... NASA Predicts Chances Have Doubled For 2032 Asteroid Collision China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for ...