New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Asteroid Bennu, with a diameter of approximately 500 metres, has a small chance of colliding with Earth on September 24, 2182. Although the probability is only 0.04% (1 in 2,700), scientists ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero, after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

Asteroid Bennu, with a diameter of approximately 500 metres, has a small chance of colliding with Earth on 24 September 2182. Although the probability is only 0.04% (1 in 2,700), scientists ...

It was first discovered in 1999, and NASA has since calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in 2,700 – chance that the asteroid will strike our planet on September 24 2182. If Bennu did ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had ...

Another study estimated the potential damage that would be caused if an asteroid the size of Bennu - with a diameter of roughly 500m - strikes Earth. Scientists have estimated a one-in-2,700 ...

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It's also much smaller than the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu, which experts have given a less than one per cent chance of striking Earth in 2182. If it did hit, Bennu has the potential to plunge ...

Sciencecategory· February 6, 2025 Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182 The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its ...