BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
The idea of cosmic threats to Earth almost sounds like the stuff of fiction. But while alien invasions may be far fetched, these threats are perfectly real.
YR4 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on December 25, 2024, when it was around 515,116 miles away from Earth.
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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a sungrazer comet, and the encounter made it bright – so ...
Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon ...