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Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth’s orbit, giving it a chance to impact.