Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth.

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An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

There's also a slight chance the asteroid could hit the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is considered ... such as the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion over Russia that injured nearly 1,500 people.

Now experts have modelled what the possible impact of 2024 YR4 – equal to 15,000,000 tons of TNT – could look like.

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