{"id":793385,"date":"2025-02-06T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793385"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:48:04","slug":"asteroid-2024-yr4-may-hit-earth-in-2032-how-worried-should-we-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793385","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 &#8211; how worried should we be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Asteroids have the potential for widespread destruction<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">muratart\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth\u2019s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess is that it has a 1-in-53 chance of striking in 2032, the highest risk of any known asteroid. But what does that number really mean, and when should we start panicking?<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are continuously tracking thousands of asteroids as they move through our solar system. This information is then collated at the Minor Planet Center, based at the Smithsonian Astrophysical\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2467169-asteroid-2024-yr4-may-hit-earth-in-2032-how-worried-should-we-be\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroids have the potential for widespread destruction muratart\/Shutterstock Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth\u2019s direction, in an effort to try to understand&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}