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NASA warns against 88-ft airplane-sized asteroid speeding towards Earth – All you need to know
This asteroid, part of the Amor group, measures approximately 88 feet in diameter and travels at a speed of about 16,500 kilometers per hour. Despite its close approach, asteroid 2024 KN1 will ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as Webb telescope is tasked with studying potential "city-killer"
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...