{"id":10915,"date":"2025-03-06T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-asteroid-detectives-are-protecting-earth-from-potentially-dangerous-impacts-find-them-before-they-find-you\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:27:08","slug":"how-asteroid-detectives-are-protecting-earth-from-potentially-dangerous-impacts-find-them-before-they-find-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-asteroid-detectives-are-protecting-earth-from-potentially-dangerous-impacts-find-them-before-they-find-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;asteroid detectives&#8221; are protecting Earth from potentially dangerous impacts: &#8220;Find them before they find you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-2024-yr4-chance-hit-earth-what-to-know\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">asteroids<\/a><\/span>, large enough to cause damage, could be in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.co\/news\/gayle-king-blue-origin-space-announcement\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, NASA was tracking a large <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-yr4-2024-threat-to-earth-nears-zero\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called &#8220;city killer.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen very often. We knew we had to monitor it and try to understand everything we could about it, not just where it is, but what is it made of? What size is it?&#8221; astronomer Nick Moskovitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Moskovitz says he&#8217;s become an &#8220;asteroid detective,&#8221; working to protect Earth from a possible disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find them before they find you. The sooner you find them, the more options you have for deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids,&#8221; Moskovitz said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"1741275705468.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/06\/95d994b3-130f-4000-9e8b-3ab9c89e8ada\/thumbnail\/620x349\/957ba88a77c405a7d3c5066717034383\/1741275705468.png?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Astronomer Nick Moskovitz discusses preventing potential asteroid impacts on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2022, NASA performed a first-of-its-kind test. The agency intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid, nudging it just enough to change its trajectory. The mission gave the space agency a tool that could potentially be used to counter an asteroid heading for our planet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only natural disaster that we could potentially prevent,&#8221; said NASA&#8217;s acting planetary defense officer Kelly Fast. &#8220;And if you were to find an impact threat to Earth well enough in advance, then you wouldn&#8217;t have to deflect it much for it to be able to miss the Earth in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lowell Discovery Telescope in northern Arizona is one of a handful around the world searching the night sky for asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can see orders of magnitude fainter than you would be able to with your naked eye,&#8221; Moskovitz explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"1741275055588.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/06\/7b8f69e7-faca-496e-be43-6c915d8be6ab\/thumbnail\/620x349\/499aca76d014417e63cc164b726a74b1\/1741275055588.png?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">The Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona is one of a handful around the world searching the night sky for asteroids that could threaten Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Stephen Tegler<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>2024 YR4, &#8220;city killer&#8221; asteroid<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Since December, Moskovitz had the Lowell Discovery Telescope trained on the<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-yr4-2024-threat-to-earth-nears-zero\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> 2024 YR4 asteroid<\/a><\/span>. Scientists at one point projected it had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032.<\/p>\n<p>2024 YR4 is now expected to miss Earth and &#8220;no longer poses a significant threat,&#8221; according to a recent analysis from NASA. It has approximately a 0.004% chance of hitting the planet in eight years, new calculations show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The latest observations have further reduced the uncertainty of its future trajectory, and the range of possible locations the asteroid could be on Dec. 22, 2032, has moved farther away from the Earth,&#8221; NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Previous impacts of asteroids<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/five-years-after-the-chelyabinsk-meteor-nasa-leads-efforts-in-planetary-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exploded over Russia,<\/a> injuring more than 1,600 people.<\/p>\n<p>An asteroid big enough to wipe out an entire city crashed to Earth 50,000 years ago in what is now northern Arizona. 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