Should We Stop Asteroid 2024 YR4 From Hitting the Moon?

Should we stop Asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the moon?

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it becomes true life.

Star Gazing: Will an asteroid destroy the Moon?

A 'city-killer' asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, with a 4.3 per cent chance of impact

Will YR4 Hit the Moon? We Won't Know Until 2028

Earlier this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered and found to have a trajectory through the Earth/Moon system in 2032. The world's telescopes focused on the potential threat and downgraded the chance to negligible for the Earth...but it still has a non-zero chance of hitting the Moon. As the asteroid became too dim to continue observing, its Moon impact chance stood at 4%. When will we update this number? Not until it does another close flyby…

A large asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, and it's not good for Earth