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  2. Could an asteroid really hit Earth? Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

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    The asteroid YR4's chances of impact now surpass the odds that Apophis once had of colliding with Earth when it was first discovered in 2004. Fortunately, the 130 to 300-foot asteroid is much ...

  3. Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth? - AOL

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    The location of 2024 YR4 qualifies it not just as any asteroid, but a near-Earth object (NEO). NEOs are defined as asteroids that hug the inner solar system, where we live, coming within 1.3 ...

  4. Odds of asteroid hitting Earth went up, but that was expected ...

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    The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made. Odds of asteroid hitting Earth went up, but that was ...

  5. Asteroid impact prediction - Wikipedia

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    The minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) between an asteroid and the Earth is the distance between the closest points of their orbits. This first check is a coarse measure that does not allow an impact prediction to be made, but is based solely on the orbit parameters and gives an initial measure of how close to Earth the asteroid could ...

  6. Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of ...

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    A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations. Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth ...

  7. List of predicted asteroid impacts on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024 [update] , all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors .

  8. List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2023 - Wikipedia

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    Below is an example list of near-Earth asteroids that nominally will pass more than 1 lunar distance (384,400 km or 0.00256 AU) from Earth in 2023. During 2022, over 1,000 asteroids passed within 10 LD (3.8 million km) of Earth. Rows highlighted grey indicate a planet or main-belt asteroid

  9. A newly discovered asteroid has a slim chance of hitting ...

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    An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. ... arises because of the incredibly high speed (about 17 kilometers per second, or 38,028 miles per hour) at ...