At the end of last year astronomers detected a new asteroid named 2024 YR4 but it wasn’t like other solar system travelers.

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At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...

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NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

Now, that risk has almost doubled according to new data, with the 90-metre-wide asteroid having a 2.3% of colliding with ...

AN astronomy expert has warned that a giant asteroid could wipe out Ireland with major earthquakes and tsunamis, saying: “It’s a real danger.” David Moore from Astronomy Ireland ...

Although Rabbi Jacobs’ article alludes to numerous other examples of scientific knowledge, let me conclude by examining a broader area which might be termed practical or applied astronomy.

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...