The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should we be worried?
Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated a 1.9 percent chance of an impact with Earth in 2032. NASA's most recent estimate has the likelihood of a strike increasing to 3.2 percent. Now that's not particularly high, but it's also not zero.
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Scientists Simulated Bennu Crashing to Earth in September 2182. It's Not Pretty.Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...
In late January, scientists announced the discovery of an asteroid with a remote chance ... “We know the ball is coming off the bat, but we don’t know where it’s going to land just yet ...
However, Bennu, a 500-metre wide lump of rock, has been located by the boffins and their telescopes and they’ve given it a 1 in 2,700 (or 0.04 percent) chance of hitting Earth. While that may seem ...
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