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An impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 could result in an explosion in the atmosphere, known as an "airburst," or potentially cause an impact crater. Many experts believe it could lead to localised ...

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The space agency said if a small 130- to 200-foot asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over a populated area, an airburst could shatter windows or cause structural damage across a city. A larger ...

creating a high-energy airburst similar to the Tunguska event in 1908, which flattened 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest. Surface impact: If the asteroid survives atmospheric entry ...

“The exact size of 2024 YR4 is still uncertain, but an airburst is a likely scenario for its size range,” NASA said. Suggesting the possible impact of a strike, NASA explained that an airburst ...

The airburst potentially if it exploded within ... “There was also a more famous event about 100 years ago – the Tunguska event – where a similar size asteroid to the one we’re talking ...

If the asteroid entered the atmosphere over a populated region, an airburst of an object on the ... It has been compared to the Tunguska strike, which flatted hundreds of square miles of trees ...

The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%. “If the asteroid entered the atmosphere over a populated region, an airburst of an object on the smaller side of the size ...

If 2024 YR4 were to enter Earth’s atmosphere, experts suggest an airburst would be the most probable outcome. An airburst occurring over the ocean would likely have minimal impact, with little ...

The chances a ‘city killer’ asteroid will crash into Earth in seven years’ time have fallen, NASA has said. Scientists have kept an eye on the ‘near-Earth asteroid’, named 2024 YR4, as ...

On 30 June 1908, a large explosion (between three and 50 megatons) near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, shook the world. Scientific research around the event ...