Good News From NASA! Asteroid YR4 No Longer Threatens Earth

JAKARTA NASA revealed that the risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is predicted to hit Earth in 2032, is no longer a threat. The reason is, the chances and impacts of the impact continue to decline.

When it was first discovered, the chances of a YR4 collision with Earth were still very small, but the probability continued to increase to reach more than three percent. Fortunately, the chances of another collision have decreased.

Currently, the chance for an asteroid to hit Buumi is only 1.7 percent with the impact probability to be 0.004 percent. This percentage shows that there is no significant potential from the approach of the asteroid.

"The latest observations have further reduced the uncertainty of its future trajectory, and the range of possible location of the asteroid on December 22, 2032, has moved further and further from Earth," NASA said, quoted on Wednesday, February 26.

This finding is the result of observations by experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA's facility center, precisely at the Near-Earth Object Studies Center fot. These experts continue to calculate the asteroid's trajectory model actively.

Although these findings are satisfactory enough for scientists, NASA says it will continue to observe the asteroid over the next few years. That way, if there are unpredictable changes, NASA will soon reveal to the public.

"The latest data about all known near-Earth asteroids that can cause a collision hazard to Earth will continue to be available on NASA's automated Sentry page," NASA said.