Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer a threat? Will it ever hit the Earth? Here’s what ESA has ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to observe the asteroid in March and May 2025 under the director’s discretionary time allocation.
The Sun26 天
Chilling new telescope pic of 30,000mph ‘city-killer’ asteroid with 1-in-48 chance of ...
The grainy images show 2024 YR4 as a bright white smudge against ... The moon's illumination caused background lighting that made it even harder to see the asteroid. Physicists will be keeping ...
Phys.org23 天
Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid
Scientists have also considered spray painting one side of the asteroid white, increasing its reflectiveness so it slowly changes trajectory. These subtler strategies would require reaching the ...
Space.com1 个月
What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting ... meaning there was a considerable increase in sky background light compared to typical darker conditions. This made it more challenging to ...
France 2424 天
How Earth can defend itself against the 'city killer' asteroid
Scientists have also considered spray painting one side of the asteroid white, increasing its reflectiveness so it slowly changes trajectory. These subtler strategies would require reaching the ...