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The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

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if you have a stone asteroid or a metal asteroid,” Fieber-Beyer said. Although NASA and other astronomers across the world are watching, Fieber-Beyer fears efforts and awareness of the dangers ...

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.