"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... agency when the odds of an impact were higher. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Here are some examples to compare the size of the asteroid: 130 feet (40 meters): About the length of a Boeing 737 jet. 300 feet (90 meters): Roughly the height of the Statue of Liberty (including ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

That's the same size of asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 injuring people and damaging buildings over 200 square miles. The most serious near-miss, and the closest comparison with YR4 ...

“The main comparison point we have for a stony asteroid impact of this magnitude is Tunguska,” Dr. Kumamoto said. The Tunguska event of 1908 involved an asteroid similar in size to 2024 YR4 ...

However, early estimates of the asteroid's size could prove incorrect ... cause any catastrophic or extinction-level event. By comparison, a collision with the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... agency when the odds of an impact were higher. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet ...

How does this compare with the asteroid that wiped out ... The good news is that an asteroid the size of YR4 is likely to hit Earth only once every few thousand years. And bigger asteroids ...

For comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ... asteroid will occur once in every 10,000 years. For a 40 m size asteroid, this drops to once every 1,000 years — but the destructive ...