Remember that asteroid that isn’t going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth’s orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to Earth someday. Recently, refined estimates of its orbit have ruled out the possibility that it will strike Earth in 2032. Nevertheless, there will likely be further close encounters with Earth well into the distant future.

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