Doomsday Asteroid 2024. Scientists at nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory in southern california. A large object like this could cause serious damage if it hit earth, similar to the chelyabinsk asteroid that exploded over russia in 2013, injuring more than 1,600 people.
Using the zwicky transient facility (ztf) telescope to survey large expanses of sky, a team of researchers led by the university of maryland investigated a stream of space debris known to drift. Initial calculations by andrea milani of the university of pisa and his colleagues hinted at a small but nonzero possibility that the rock.