An asteroid ... Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the ESA said a previous statement about 2024 YR4. If the asteroid does hit the ...
Not only can all of these observations help predict when and if an asteroid will strike Earth, it can also provide at least a general range of what the impact point on the planet would be.
But if it does hit Earth, that would still be really bad, right? Yeah, an asteroid of that size hitting the planet could do a lot of localized damage and be devastating if it exploded over a ...
An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the ...
The chance of a major asteroid ... Earth, in Coober Pedy, a small mining town in South Australia, on December 6, 2020. MORGAN SETTE/AFP via Getty Images If the asteroid ends up hitting the ...
YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...