No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s ...
But less than 17 hours later, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) issued an editorial notice: It was deleting 2018 CN41 from its records because, it turned out, the object was not an asteroid. It was a ...
Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...
Nearly seven years later, on Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid designated 2018 CN41. The MPC said the asteroid was ...
A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the planet ... Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center, which determined it had ...
The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of dwarf planet 2015, the world with an extremely distant aphelion ...