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Headline: UNCAPTIOEND: Armageddon Out Of Here! Earth Is Saved From Feared Asteroid Strike
Caption: Astronomers have concluded that the Earth is safe from an asteroid that threatened to cause havoc by striking the Earth in 2032. New observations of the 2024 YR4 asteroid conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with our planet. The asteroid has been closely monitored in the past couple of months as its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to above 3% the highest impact probability ever reached for a sizable asteroid on record. However, after the latest observations, the odds of impact dropped to nearly zero (0.001%). If it were to strike the Earth the football-pitch sized asteroid could've caused havoc by wiping out a city or causing tsunamis if it struck at sea.
Keywords: Astronomers,feature,video,yr4,space,astronomy,science,eso,Orbit,Earth,European Southern Observatory,science and technology
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