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    New NASA Asteroid Observations Eliminate Chance of 2032 Lunar Impact

    Graphic of the impact probability of possible locations of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. Yellow dots show that the asteroid will not impact the Moon.

    Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observations collected on Feb. 18 and 26, experts from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have refined near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4’s orbit and are ruling out a chance of lunar impact on Dec. 22, 2032. With the new […]

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