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A giant asteroid, roughly the size of a football field, was spotted hurtling through space — and for a moment, it looked like it could hit Earth. Astronomers scrambled to analyze its path, and the good news? Earth is safe. But the Moon… might not be so lucky. This video unpacks everything we know about asteroid 2024 YR4, its unpredictable future, and why scientists are keeping a very close eye on it. If you’re into space drama, science updates, or cosmic near-misses, this one’s for you.
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2024 YR4: by ESO/O. Hainaut et al., https://www.eso.org/public/videos/YR4-2/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_ESO-VLT.gif
Asteroid 2024 YR4: by ESO/O. Hainaut, https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2505a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_2024_YR4_observed_with_ESO’s_Very_Large_Telescope_(eso2505a).tiff
Isolated Stadium: by mostafasami, https://skfb.ly/oBGr6
Asteroid low poly: by pasquill, https://skfb.ly/oz7ZN
Antarctic Meteorite: by NASA Astromaterials 3D, CC0 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, https://skfb.ly/oU6TS
separation of LICIACube: by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben/Jessica Tozer, https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/media/videos/DART_AnimatedSequence-2020.mp4, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DART_AnimatedSequence-2020_from_launch_to_impact_along_with_separation_of_LICIACube.webm
Lunar Impact: by Science@NASA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11278
Lunar Exploration: by NASA, https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/small-spacecraft-technology-program/nasa-cubesats-play-big-role-in-lunar-exploration/
Earth’s Trojan Asteroids: by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12504/
Asteroid Mission: by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14763/
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