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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it | CNN


Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

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