The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just ... That’s big enough to destroy most of a large city. Dr Robin George Andrews, the ­British ...

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The impact of a 4.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the capital at 5.36 am was stronger than a higher-magnitude one as it ...

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It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...