Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than 10 meters has a greater than 1 percent chance of striking Earth within the next 20 years. The risk of 2024 YR4 meets this threshold.
UN monitors asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth
UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it has an almost 99% chance of safely passing Earth on 22 December 2032, but a possible impact "cannot yet be entirely ruled out".
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
AN astronomy expert has warned that a giant asteroid could wipe out Ireland with major earthquakes and tsunamis, saying: “It’s a real danger.” David Moore from Astronomy Ireland ...
Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
Astronomy on MSN3d
Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samplesThe meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Irish Mirror on MSN3d
Giant asteroid could wipe out Ireland with a series of devastating earthquakes or massive tsunamisA giant asteroid hurtling towards Earth could wipe out Ireland with a series of devastating earthquakes or massive tsunamis, ...
Deflecting an asteroid with something like DART clearly works well ... rocks to see if they all respond the same way to a ...
New Scientist on MSN2d
Grand canyons formed on moon in minutes after colossal asteroid strikeTwo canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...
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