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City-Killer Asteroid 2024 YR4
November 6 , 2025
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- Asteroid 2024 YR4 may collide with the Moon in 2032.
- The asteroid measures approximately 6m across, according to observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
- NASA considers using nuclear disruption because traditional kinetic deflection methods are insufficient for this asteroid.
- Mission windows for a nuclear intervention are being evaluated between late 2029 and late 2031.
- A nuclear standoff detonation would vaporize a layer of the asteroid’s surface, changing its trajectory without direct contact.
- A lunar impact could temporarily increase micrometeoroid flux in low Earth orbit, which may threaten satellites and human space missions.
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