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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...
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Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid
Scientists have also considered spray painting one side of the asteroid white, increasing its reflectiveness so it slowly changes trajectory. These subtler strategies would require reaching the ...
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‘City Killer’ Asteroid Suddenly Declared Safe — What To Know
It fell to level 1 (green, “normal”) on Feb. 20 and has now been labeled level 0 (white, “no hazard”). “Asteroid 2024 YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero as additional ...
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An asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth keep shifting. Here’s why that is happening
(CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the space rock has a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the ...