{"id":794801,"date":"2025-03-28T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794801"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:28:06","slug":"asteroid-2024-yr4-could-still-hit-the-moon-jwst-observations-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794801","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal"},"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\">There is a small chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ESA\/NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>For a brief period earlier this year, the world\u2019s space agencies were warning that the asteroid 2024 YR4 had an uncomfortably high 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Thankfully, more detailed observations have now dropped those odd to near zero, but fresh analysis using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows there is still a chance it will impact our moon \u2013 something that astronomers are excited to see.<\/p>\n<p>In February, when concerns were still high,\u00a0Andrew Rivkin at Johns Hopkins University and his\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2474150-asteroid-2024-yr4-could-still-hit-the-moon-jwst-observations-reveal\/?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>There is a small chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon ESA\/NASA For a brief period earlier this year, the world\u2019s space agencies were warning that the asteroid 2024&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794801","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\/794801","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=794801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}