🚨 2024 YR4 asteroid impact update!
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the #asteroid with our planet. The asteroid has been closely monitored in the past couple of months as its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to around 3%, the highest impact probability ever reached for a sizable asteroid. After the latest observations, the odds of impact dropped to nearly zero.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2505/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the #asteroid with our planet. The asteroid has been closely monitored in the past couple of months as its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to around 3%, the highest impact probability ever reached for a sizable asteroid. After the latest observations, the odds of impact dropped to nearly zero.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2505/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
