A desperate, futile dash under a flaming sky: Min-by-min breakdown of what would happen if looming asteroid hit London
IT starts with a glimmer in the sky – just a pinprick of light, barely distinguishable from the stars. But this is no distant celestial body – this is a massive 2,560-foot-wide ...
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NASA monitors asteroid 2024 YR4 as chance of impacting Earth rises to 2%
The odds of a strike will almost certainly continue to go up and down as the asteroid’s path around the sun is better ...
Dramatically decreasing the time it takes to measure asteroid distances
We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...