from the impact site. A telescope in Chile, part of a NASA-funded program to search for near-Earth objects, spied the asteroid two days after the rock, on Christmas, made its closest approach to ...
The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, stands out as the only near-Earth asteroid out of the over 37,000 currently recognized to have an impact probability above 1 percent. Scientists calculated this ...
shortly after the object was discovered in December 2024. As of January 29, 2025, the asteroid has an almost 99 percent chance of safely passing Earth on December 22, 2032, but a possible impact ...
An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... The asteroid is visible from Earth through April 2025. After that, it won't be possible to observe again until June 2028.
Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years ... Automated asteroid warning systems sent out an alarm after determining the asteroid had a slim chance of impacting Earth in ...