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NASA says probability of "city killer" asteroid hitting Earth has increased

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1% chance of striking the Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released on Tuesday.

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NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, 2032.

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An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson's chilling warning about 'mansion-sized asteroid' that could hit Earth in 2032

YR4 has a chance to crash into the Earth in 2032 when the "mansion-sized" space rock approaches our planet with enough power ...

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Meet 2024 YR4, the Asteroid With a Small Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032

NASA in 2022 tested a potential technique to deflect future, Earth-threatening asteroids with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The agency sent a spacecraft to crash into a harmless ...

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Is an asteroid going to hit Earth in 2032? What to know about 2024 YR4

In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to nudge an incoming asteroid out of harm's way by slamming a spacecraft into it as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind ...

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