Asteroids Hitting Earth Soon 2025. Astronomers say that a newly identified space rock, potentially as big as a football field, has a better than 1% chance of crashing into earth on dec. When apophis made a distant flyby of earth around march 5, 2021, astronomers took the opportunity to use powerful radar observations to refine the estimate of its orbit around the sun with extreme precision, enabling.

Get instant summarized text (gist) an asteroid named 2024 yr4 has a 3.1% chance of impacting earth on december 22, 2032, posing a significant threat as a city killer. That’s 18 times farther than the moon is.