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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike Earth, Researchers Say, But the Odds are Small

30 janvier 2025 à 00:46
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032.

© ESA-Science Office

An artist’s impression of an asteroid. Newly discovered 2024 YR4 has an almost 99 percent chance of safely passing Earth in 2032.
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Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples

Par : Carl Zimmer
29 janvier 2025 à 17:00
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

© NASA

Astromaterials processors at the Johnson Space Center in Houston collected asteroid particles from the base of the OSIRIS-REx science canister after its return from space in 2023.
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