In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a roughly 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.
  • troed
    19•3 months ago

    Most countries on Earth would treat this as a global catastrophe and put up funds regardless of where it’s projected to impact.

    Maybe not the current US, though.