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A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

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Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) at one of their telescopes in Chile.

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"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.