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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032


New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to minimal levels, but its extraordinarily close approach will offer astronomers the chance to examine it in detail

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