Asteroid on collision course to Earth! Why the odds of impact keep shifting

A 40-90 m wide ‘city destroyer’ asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is on a collision course to Earth set to potentially impact in 2032.  Discovered on the 27th of December 2024, NASA originally estimated the asteroid to have under a 1% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, steadily rising to 2.6% in January and then …

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