This artist’s concept compares the approximate size of Lucy’s next asteroid target, Donaldjohanson, to the smallest main belt asteroids previously visited by spacecraft — Dinkinesh, visited by Lucy in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines ... Even if this one is at the high end of its predicted size range, 80 m is a pebble in comparison. The only other object to have outranked 2024 YR4 ...

How does this compare with the asteroid that wiped out ... The good news is that an asteroid the size of YR4 is likely to hit Earth only once every few thousand years. And bigger asteroids ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

“The main comparison point we have for a stony asteroid impact of this magnitude is Tunguska,” Dr. Kumamoto said. The Tunguska event of 1908 involved an asteroid similar in size to 2024 YR4 ...

In comparison, astronomers say the chance of winning big on the lottery is about one in 14 million. The increased odds mean the asteroid - which is around the size of a football pitch - is the ...

That's the same size of asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 injuring people and damaging buildings over 200 square miles. The most serious near-miss, and the closest comparison with YR4, was ...

That's the same size of asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 injuring people and damaging buildings over 200 square miles. The most serious near-miss, and the closest comparison with YR4 ...

Estimates of the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 have gone down to near zero, but that doesn't mean Earth is safe.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... agency when the odds of an impact were higher. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet ...