By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters)-New observations on a small asteroid discovered in December, astronomers, have pushed the conclusion that its amazing opportunities on Earth were almost on Earth after the previous data indicated a greater risk of collision with this space rock about 130-300 feet (40-90 meters).
The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, revolves around a path that will lead to its approach to Earth in 2032, when scientists previously calculated the possibility of influence at about 3 %, the highest value that has ever recorded for such an object.
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The new data, which the largely -based telescope acquired Chile in Chile and other facilities, gave a more accurate picture of the future path of Bruced. The possibility of influence was reduced to 0.001 %, according to the Coordination Center at the European Space Agency near Earth, while NASA’s jet laboratory put it 0.004 %.
“The danger decreases,” said Olivier Hinot, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany.
NASA has placed the asteroid colliding with the moon by 1.7 %.
The asteroid has been closely monitored since its discovery due to the potential threat it represented. It is possible that the effect will cause regional destruction and a significant loss of lives.
“A 10 -meter (33 feet) is the same energy with the Hiroshima bomb,” said Heinoot, who estimated that the influence of YR4 will be 500 times more active.
“Fortunately, it is very likely that most of this energy will be thrown into a high atmosphere when the asteroid comes. However, this explosion is large, it may cause damage to the city level,” he added.
The asteroids hit the Earth from time to time on their long history, often with catastrophic results. For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km)-much older than 2024 years-from the coast of the Yousan Peninsula in Mexico 66 million years ago, which led to the elimination of about three quarters of the world and end the age of dinosaurs.
In 2022, NASA carried out a drunken defensive mission by using a robotic spacecraft to change the path of the asteroid wave, while considering doing this in the future if one of them appears in a collision cycle with the Earth.
Astronomers learn more and more about asteroids. For example, the robotic spacecraft from NASA Osrice-Rix traveled to a asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 she collected samples of rocks and dust, according to a study published in January, with some basic building blocks of life.
Another study estimated the potential damage that could occur if the size of the asteroid is Bennu – with a diameter of approximately three mile sticks (500 meters) – hitting the ground. Scientists set one in every 2700 Peno collision with Earth in 2182.
Regardless of the immediate destruction, the researchers estimated that the effect of the asteroid Bennu will achieve 100-400 million tons of dust in the air, causing climate and chemistry disorders in the atmosphere and global optical representation that lasts from three to four years.
(Participated in Will Doneham reports in Washington; Al -Tahrir by Daniel Walis)
