Claim Details

An asteroid is headed towards Earth.

Checked on 2024-09-27

Veracity Assessment: Uncertain

Probability: 0.5

Justification: The evidence provided does not conclusively prove that an asteroid is headed towards Earth. It discusses various asteroids and their potential impacts, but it does not specifically confirm the claim that an asteroid is currently on a collision course with Earth.

Verdict: Uncertain

Final Truth Score: 0.69

Overall CRAAP Scores:
Sources:
A New Asteroid Is Heading Our Way. Here's What to Know | TIME

For starters, there’s the size of 2023 DW to consider—which is not that big, but not that small either. It’s nowhere near the 12 km (7.5 mi.) wide asteroid—more than half the length of ...

CRAAP Scores:
Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

CRAAP Scores:
Asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as temporary 'mini moon' - NBC News

The asteroid is expected to enter Earth’s orbit Sunday and lurk there until Nov. 25, just over 56 days, Marcos said. Earth as seen from the surface of the moon by the Apollo 11 Command Module in ...

CRAAP Scores:
NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after ...

The asteroid, named 2024 ON, flew safely past our planet at a distance of 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) — roughly 2.6 times the distance between the moon and Earth — on Tuesday (Sept ...

CRAAP Scores:
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object. The average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 ...

CRAAP Scores:
Back to News