The asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across Earth can collide in 2032, and as NASA says the chances of collision are “very low”, the possibility may have increased since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.
NASA said last week that there is currently 2.3 % (or 1 in 43) that the asteroid, which is called 2024 years, will strike the land on December 22, 2032. While it is still small, this possibility has almost doubled from the agency’s first agency’s estimate of 1.2 % In late January.
at that time , NASA said “There are no other largely known asteroids that have a possibility of an effect above 1 %.”
The agency monitors the asteroid orphanage and said that the “threat of influence” of the object can be excluded in the end. But in Blog post on space rockThe agency said that “it is also possible that the possibility of its influence will continue to rise” as it has become more clear details.
Discover 2024 YR4 photos.
NASA estimates that the asteroid measures between 130 and 300 feet across. In the case of unlikely to hit the ground, the asteroid is likely to “affect a high speed” of about 38,000 miles per hour. According to the Center for Studies of the near Earth’s being In NASA’s jeta payment laboratory.
The space rock of this size will likely cause local damage, but it does not threaten the entire planet or humanity, as it may be if the asteroid is much larger in a collision path with the Earth.
The 2024 YR4 asteroid for the first time was detected by the Cuertonian System Alert Station in Chile on December 27, 2024. Since then, researchers have been studying the space rock using Earth’s telescopes.
NASA said the asteroid will remain visible to the ground posts until April. After that, the space rock will be very faded so that it cannot be seen even around June 2028.
The Agency’s James Web Telescope will train its eyes on the asteroid in March to better evaluate its size, according to NASA.
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