Asteroids can cause widespread destruction
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Telescopes around the world are currently trained on building-sized asteroids growing in the direction of the Earth, trying to understand whether it might hit us. The best guess at the moment is that this object, called 2024 YR4, has the potential to be an 1-in-43 attack in 2032. But what does that number really mean, and when should you panic?
Astronomers continue to track thousands of asteroids as they travel through our solar system. This information will be matched at the Minor Planet Center…
Source: www.newscientist.com
