Don't look up: Asteroid on collision course with Earth could level a city
Asteroid 2024 YR was likely a "small, rocky object" measuring 40 to 100 metres and weighing about 220 million kgs. "If it was to hit it would explode in the atmosphere creating a shockwave that will level an area comparable to an area of Greater Sydney," he said.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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 ...
Based on current data, 2024 YR is large enough for it to potentially cause localized damage were it to strike a populated city ... Laboratory (JPL) Asteroid Watch tracks asteroids and comets ...
The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide ...
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