The asteroid is as big as the building can be stabbed into the Earth

The space agencies are closely monitoring a recent planet that is capable of colliding with the Earth. In terms of 2024 YR4, this asteroid has 1.2% of the ability to crash into the Earth on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Thus, the ability to fly through the earth safely in 2032 is nearly 99%. Future observations will help scientists determine the risk of collision more accurately, CNN On January 31 reported.

The planet 2024 YR4 is estimated at 40 – 100 m wide. These large planets collided with the Earth every few thousand years and could cause heavy damage to the area. It is the same size as a large building, according to Dr. Paul Chodas, director of the Tangluc Research Center near the Earth at NASA’s jet thrust laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Chodas said that the current astronomers are not sure about the actual size of the asteroid and are seeking to determine with the next observations with many telescopes.

“If the asteroid is at the end of the estimate of the size, the collision can create damage within 50 km around the impact area,” Chodas said. “The likelihood of damage increases due to extremely high speed (about 17 km/second or 61,200 km/h) that the biased through the atmosphere.”

The final warning system collided between the asteroid and the Earth (Atlas), the telescope located in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024. This telescope is one of the funding programs to scan the sky to search for a planet near the Earth, according to Davide Farnocchia, managing directions at JPL and CNEOS. Discovery occurs when asteroid is located in the vicinity of the Earth and bright enough to see.

The asteroid warning systems automatically emit an alarm after determining the asteroid capable of colliding with the Earth low by 2032, pushing it at the top of NASA on December 31, 2024.

From the beginning of January 2025, astronomers used Magdalena Ridge observatory in New Mexico, Danish telescopes and huge telescopes in Chile to monitor the asteroid is 45 million km from Earth. . Observations can help researchers narrow the estimate of the size and flight route of the asteroid.

When the asteroid moves away from the Earth and becomes faded, the researchers will have to rely on the larger telescope to observe it. Thien The observed until the beginning of April as it continued the orbit around the Sun and will not return to the Earth until 2028. If 2024 YR4 disappears from the vision before the space agencies eliminate complete exclusion. All the ability to collide, it will still be on the risk list.

NASA and ESA regularly monitor thousands of planets near the Earth, but depending on the size, they are not always visible. Improvements in the asteroid survey technology can detect heavily that astronomy cannot see in the past. Currently, no major asteroid has known the ability to collide with the Earth greater than 1%, according to NASA.