Shock discovery of football pitch-sized asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in seven years
It's thought to be 55-metres wide, about half the length of a football pitch. The Torino scale - Nasa's hazard scale rating - has put 2024 YR4 at three out of 10, meaning it's an asteroid ...
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, measures 100m by 40m. The Earth takes a direct hit from an asteroid of that size only once every few thousand years.
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