NASA now says moon won’t be hit by asteroid in 2032
Digest more
Interesting Engineering on MSN
NASA refines asteroid 2024 YR4 orbit, rules out collision with Moon in 2032
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid
NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space rock's orbital path held out a slight chance of impact, but fresh observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm that it'll be a miss.
Based on JWST's readings, which were collected on February 18 and 26, experts from NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory say they expect 2024 YR4 to zoom past the lunar surface at a distance of 13,200 miles on 22 December 2032.
The Daily Galaxy on MSN
NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth or Moon in 2032
In a recent update on March 5, NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, often referred to as a “city killer,” will not collide with either the Earth or the Moon as initially feared. Thanks to new, extremely sensitive observations made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST),
Asteroids regularly pass through Earth’s cosmic neighbourhood, and most of them never attract public attention. Every so often, though, a newly discov.