After two months of careful observations, scientists from the United States and Europe have lowered the threat level of a newly discovered asteroid that previously posed a significant collision risk with Earth.
These risks have now been fully ruled out, NASA said in a post on its Planetary Defense blog.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024, by the ATLAS telescope in northern Chile. Circling our solar system in a four-year orbit, the rock was measured to be approximately 130 feet to 300 feet across.
Automated warning systems quickly identified that the object had a small, but worrisome chance of colliding with the Earth during its projected fly-by in 2032....
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