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Don’t Freak Out, But an Asteroid Might Hit Earth in 2032
Pop culture is rife with depictions of asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The idea of a celestial body heading right ...
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Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
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Newfound Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032, Scientists Say
If an asteroid the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life ... when a suspected asteroid or comet burst over Russia and flattened 2,150 square kilometers of remote Siberian ...
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NASA spotted a big asteroid that may hit Earth — what you should know
The asteroid that hit Arizona 50,000 years ago and created ... rock that exploded over Russia and blew out people's windows in 2013 proved. Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized ...
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Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The memo said “Asteroid 2024 YR4,” first detected in late December after it came out of the sun’s glare and passed by the Earth, might hit our planet ... near Tunguska, Russia, in 1908 ...
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Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The asteroid 2024 YR4 is big ... By comparison, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, was estimated to be about half that size (17 to 20 meters or 56 to 66 feet) in diameter.