NASA puts U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in ‘impact risk corridor’ for asteroid

There’s bad news — and even more bad news.

Which do you want first?

NASA has officially upgraded the likelihood of Earth being hit by asteroid 2024 YR4.

What’s worse, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are in the asteroid’s projected flight path.

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, now lists the chance of a collision in 2032 at 3.1 per cent, or roughly 1-in-32.

It has gone through a number of upgrades: the most recent estimate had put it at 2.6 per cent. At the end of January, it had been just 1 per cent.

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