An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December ...

that measure over 65 feet in diameter and have a 1% or greater chance of deep impact. According to the scale, this asteroid is a “close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers” and boasts ...

Their synchronised orbit with Venus means they could intersect Earth’s path at any time. Of particular concern is their ...

Observatories on Earth like the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex ... high or low, that the asteroid could impact the planet within the next century, using every new observation of the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December ... That’s fortunate because if YR4 were to strike home, the deep impact would release an energy blast equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT — roughly ...

The other, called Vallis Schrödinger, is about 168 miles (270 km) long and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) deep. The impact occurred during ... larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

“And in the deep ocean, an impact would have no severe consequences either.” Though astronomers say Asteroid 2024 YR4 is highly unlikely to hit Earth, “the situation is significant enough to ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide ... quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.

Immediate aftermath included the creation of a 62-mile-wide, 19-mile-deep transient cavity ... distributed fallout produced by the asteroid impact at Chicxulub. Credit: Philippe Claeys But ...

A: Shows Earth's environment pre-impact, with green photosynthetic life on the surface and iron (Fe2+) in the deep ocean ... Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 ...