NASA has upgraded the possibility of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the earth in 2032 to 3.1 per cent or simply a 1-in-32 chance. It has been reported that much of the asteroid’s estimated path passes over empty ocean, however, some possible impact locations are close to large cities Bogotá, Lagos and Mumbai. One asteroid, 2024 YR4, has been of particular …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “If the asteroid turns out to be on the large end of its estimated size range, the impact could produce blast damage as far as 50 kilometers from the impact site,” Chodas said. Hainaut et al Spotting an asteroid that’s new to science The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope …
