{"id":303386,"date":"2026-02-18T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303386\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:41:08","slug":"these-cities-could-be-wiped-out-he-modeled-what-would-happen-if-asteroid-2024-yr4-struck-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303386\/","title":{"rendered":"These cities could be wiped out: he modeled what would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 struck Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tThese cities could be wiped out: he modeled what would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 struck Earth! &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/impact-asteroide-ville.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"impact-asteroid-city\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    While astronomers estimate the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in December 2032 at just over 2%, what do they know about where it might strike? \u00a9 Dada635, Adobe Stock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These cities could be wiped out: he modeled what would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 struck Earth! &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[37667,61,60,95809,82,247,143268],"class_list":["post-303386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-asteroid-2024-yr4","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-near-earth-asteroid","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-collision-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}