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'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA
An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday—making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.
Chances of 'City Killer' Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Reach New High
The chances that an asteroid hits Earth in 2032 are now at their highest since the object was first discovered, according to NASA.
‘City-killer’ asteroid strike risk rises, may impact over 100 million: NASA warns
Asteroid’s risk corridor . The hazardous asteroid was first spotted in December 2024 by telescopes in Rio Hurtado, Chile, under the ATLAS project. Although not an extinction-lev
Chance of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 smashing into Earth rises yet again to 3.1%, NASA reports
NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in previous calculations.
‘City-killer’ 2024 YR4 surpasses ‘God of Chaos' Apophis' odds of hitting Earth: India also at risk
Odds of Earth’s potential impact with ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 have risen to an all-time high. The exact size of the space rock is still unclear, though it is estimated to be the same size as New York’s Statue of Liberty and has a destructive potential 500 times the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima.
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‘City-killer’ asteroid is hurtling by Earth — and scientists are warning of its potential impact
you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week. The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by ...
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A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth—how worried should we be?
but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city ...