The chances of an asteroid the size of a football field striking Earth in 2032 have been reduced to virtually zero, although the risk of it striking the moon slightly increased, NASA said.
On Tuesday, NASA said its Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California updated the impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032, to 3.1%, the highest impact probability NASA said it has recorded for an object of such size or larger. The asteroid is believed to be between 131 feet to 295 feet wide.
But NASA said Thursday that observations made overnight decreased the asteroid’s chance of impacting Earth to 0.28%.
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