{"id":2880,"date":"2025-06-20T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/deadly-asteroid-could-crash-into-the-moon-in-a-few-years\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:05:00","slug":"deadly-asteroid-could-crash-into-the-moon-in-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/deadly-asteroid-could-crash-into-the-moon-in-a-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly asteroid could crash into the moon in a few years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-20 13:04:58<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A death-defying asteroid could crash into the moon.<BR><br \/>\n2024 YR4 &#8211; the up to 300ft-wide chunk of space rock &#8211; was originally on course to crash down on Earth on December 22, 2032, but the James Webb Space Telescope ruled that this was not going to happen.<BR><br \/>\nNow, according to its course, the asteroid could slam into the moon in late December 2032.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, NASA only thinks there is a four per cent chance of this happening.<BR><br \/>\nAstronomers previously predicted that 2024 YR4 &#8211; which was zooming down towards the planet at 38,000 mph &#8211; had a 2.3 per cent (one-in-43) before its original 1.2 per cent chance of crashing down on the planet on December 22, 2032.<BR><br \/>\nSome even scrambled to come up with a plan to fend off the up to 300ft-wide chunk of space rock, with expert David Rankin stressing that people should not worry about it because it will start &#8220;falling at some point&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nNow, scientists from the European Space Agency have confirmed the menace &#8211; which was detected on December 27, 2024 &#8211; affecting us has a 0.001 per cent chance of doing so.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Richard Binzel, the creator of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, of which 2024 YR4 has dropped from Level 3 to Level 0, said: &#8220;That&#8217;s impact probability zero, folks.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nEven though it is currently 27 million miles away, it has been said it will return to our orbit in 2032.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-20 13:04:58 A death-defying asteroid could crash into the moon. 2024 YR4 &#8211; the up to 300ft-wide chunk of space rock &#8211; was originally on course to crash down on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}