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2024 YR 4 is an asteroid between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft) in diameter, classified as an Apollo-type (Earth-crossing) near-Earth object. It was discovered by the Chilean station of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 27 December 2024.
Asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2024 include: Asteroid Perigee Date in 2024 2009 JV 1: 0.0571 AU (19.21 LD) January 5 2021 BL 3: 0.0441 AU (17.16 LD) January 23 [1]
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could smash into Earth in 2032 (NASA via AP) The “risk corridor” for impact stretches from South America, across central Africa, and up towards India and South-East Asia. But ...
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first noted this asteroid. Due to 2024 UQ being close to the boundary between two adjacent fields, [clarification needed] [4] only hours later was the object reported to be moving. By then, the asteroid had already impacted Earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path.
Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine ... rocks named 2024 TR6, which is about 50m wide, will come within 5.6 million km (3.5 million ...
The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for ...
2024 MK is a near-Earth object with a diameter around 150 meters that flew past Earth on June 29, 2024. [1] It was discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 16 June 2024. [2] This asteroid travels in both the main-belt and in the near-Earth region. It passed Earth on 29 June 2024 at a distance of 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers).