were inadvertently stashed away in a database meant for miscellaneous and unknown objects, according to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. An amateur astronomer noticed ...

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An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

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But as astronomers gather more data on the future orbit of 2024 YR4 ... astronomers report the find to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a sort of public notice board for ...

The asteroid, known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, was first reported to the Minor Planet Center on Dec. 27 ... to be about 130 to 300 feet wide. Data suggests that the asteroid has an elongated shape ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Well, the odds have essentially doubled since the asteroid, known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, was first reported to the Minor Planet Center on Dec ... found it in data from Catalina Sky Survey.

The Minor Planet Center — which operates under the auspices ... traditionally in a format known as two-line elements (TLEs). These data are collated by the U.S. Space Force, which also performs ...

However the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises such space ... “At the very least, we managed to filter out some non-minor-planet observations from the MPC database,” G said.