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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...
Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system
Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as NASA tasked with studying it
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... part of the solar system on Dec ...
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Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock ... of our solar system some 4.6 ...
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Asteroid alert
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid ... of space by the gravitational ...
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Odds of asteroid's impact keep going up — just as scientists expected
"It's not surprising the percentage went up," Bruce Betts, an astronomer and the chief scientist at The Planetary Society, an organization promoting space ... asteroid's orbit around the solar ...
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Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) and the European Space ... asteroid, but a near-Earth object (NEO). NEOs are defined as asteroids that hug the inner solar ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
The threat of a newly discovered asteroid ... are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the leftovers from the solar system ...