Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have increased slightly since then, according to the European Space ...
An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...
Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have increased since then, according to NASA and the European Space ...
But the world's space agencies have now made a rare emergency decision as the chances of Earth being hit by a 'city-killer ... from its surface. In general, the larger an asteroid, the brighter ...
The general rule is that the brighter an asteroid is, the larger it is ... we're looking at what they would call a city killer, where if it was to land on a major city - and there are a few ...
The space rock could, in fact, be significantly larger than it seems. "In general, the brighter the asteroid, the larger it is, but this relationship strongly depends on how reflective the ...
An artist’s impression of a “city-killing” asteroid ... heat — rather than brightness — given off by the asteroid. “In general, the brighter the asteroid, the larger it is, but ...