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From: tntpal	4/4/2025 12:08:35 PM
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Asteroid on crash course with the moon after Earth likely to dodge a direct hit A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024 and believed to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, NASA wrote in an update Wednesday. When concerns about the asteroid — which scientists previously cautioned could be a “city killer” — were at an all-time high earlier this year, astronomer Andrew Rivkin conducted a five-hour observation of the space rock and found it may make impact elsewhere: the moon. The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, jumped from 1.7% in late February to 3.8% based on data collected using the James Webb Space Telescope... nypost.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. Remember - Shoemaker-Levy 9 (a comet) mpacts on Jupiter 7/16/1994* Comets are icy, dusty "dirty snowballs" with tails that form as they approach the sun, while Asteroids are rocky or metallic objects, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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