Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the less-seen side of Mars’ smaller, tidally-locked moon as it orbited its home planet.
YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.
Now, new calculations by University of Arizona astronomer David Rankin have reportedly found that there is a slim chance of about 0.3 per cent of the 90-metre-wide asteroid crashing onto the ...
An asteroid crashing into Earth in an illustration ... But what happens if this city-killer asteroid hits the Moon instead? According to David Rankin, an operations engineer at the ...
If the asteroid collided with the Moon, Earth would be largely unaffected ... Nasa has repeatedly changed estimates on whether the asteroid will crash into Earth. Astronomers first noticed ...
In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds standing at 1.7%, according to NASA. "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our ...
The asteroid still has a 1.7% chance of crashing into the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid was first discovered in late 2024 and reported when it surpassed the 1% impact probability ...
There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon. While scientists have doubled the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, new calculations show that there was a ...
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