but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city ...

The effort marks the first update to Auburn's master plan in nearly 30 years, and officials say they are literally mapping out the city's future.

but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024. According to the latest NASA estimates , it has about a 1-in-43 chance of ...

The odds of a “city-killer” asteroid striking Earth in about eight years time has gone up. NASA’s initial analysis of the newly identified asteroid, 2024 YR4, estimated to be between 40 and 100 metres ...

But NASA warns that the odds of a 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth have increased yet again. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the odds of the asteroid ...

you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week. The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by ...