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2024 YR4 and other dangerous asteroids
Is it likely for an asteroid to hit Earth anytime soon? In this article, we’ll answer the most burning questions about potentially hazardous asteroids.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is predicted to follow an equatorial path that could take it over some pretty populated places, like Mumbai in India, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and some countries in Africa like Nigeria and Ghana. The good news is that most of the largest NEOs, that can pose the biggest threat to Earth, have already been found.Over the past 30 years, we’ve made significant progress in discovering near-Earth asteroids: astronomers report new ones almost daily. In the past ten years, ground-based surveys and NASA’s space telescope have detected thousands of near-Earth objects and greatly contributed to our knowledge about tracking asteroids and comets.
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