Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer represents a significant threat to the country in 2032, NASA -ina latest analysis determines
The so -called scientists of the “city of city” asteroids were followed after they discovered that she had a little chance of hitting the country in 2032. “He no longer represents a significant threat,” Nasa said in her last analysis.
Asteroid of 2024, which is almost the size of a football field, now has approximately 0.004% chance of hitting the ground for about eight years, states the space agency The latest budgets. Center for Study of Objects near Earth previously projected 3% chance of an asteroid hitting our planet before reducing a chance to 0.28% last week.
Nasa said that the changes were caused by constant observation of asteroids that allow experts to “calculate more precisely asteroid path models”. Now there is no significant potential for this asteroid to affect the country in the next century, the agency added.
“The latest observations further reduced the uncertainty of his future path, and the range of possible locations that the asteroid could be on December 2, 2032, moved beyond the country,” Nasa said.
The moon, however, could be asteroid’s path in 2024. The latest NASA -E numbers show that there is 1.7% likelihood that it could affect the moon.
The asteroid was first observed on December 27, 2024, El Observatory of the Cile sauce. Based on their brightness, astronomers estimate that it is between 130 and 300 feet wide.
Meanwhile, Nasa continues to monitor other potential threats of asteroids through GuardIts automated collision monitoring system scanning the most current asteroid catalog for the possibilities of future influence with the country in the next century.
