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NASA Telescope Detects Asteroid Heading Toward the Moon with Force of 500 Hiroshima Bombs


A Potential Lunar Impact—But Earth Remains Safe NASA’s advanced space telescope has identified a massive asteroid, 2024 YR4, with the explosive power of 500 Hiroshima bombs, potentially on a collision course with the Moon. While Earth is out of harm’s way, scientists are now closely monitoring the asteroid’s trajectory as it moves through space. A

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