There are a few key reasons why 2024 YR4 is making headlines: Size and Speed: YR4 is larger than the asteroid that caused the 2013 Chelyabinsk explosion in Russia. It’s traveling at speeds exceeding 25,000 km/h, making even a minor orbital change potentially dangerous. Orbital Uncertainty: When new asteroids are first discovered, their exact paths…
ZTF, based at the Palomar Observatory, found a variety of amazing phenomena in the night sky, including 50 near-Earth asteroids and 1,100 new supernovae. Have you ever wondered about the secrets of the night sky? Do you want to know what lies in the empty space around stars? The Zwicky Transient Facility in San Diego…
A Near-Earth Object will pass by us safely and there is nothing to worry about. Asteroid Impacts are always on the cards and this is the reason why NASA maintains a complete record of all the Near-Earth Objects (NEO). Recently, the news of a potentially dangerous asteroid coming a way too close to the Earth…
Will the Asteroid 1997 XF11 collide with the Earth? The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) of NASA has been answering this query for quite a few years now. NASA was trying to oblige to a Congressional request made in 1998 when the researchers encountered an asteroid (1997 XF11) which indicated that a kilometer-wide object…