by According to the latest data from NASA, some of the most populous cities in the world will pass on the estimated trajectory of an asteroid of Big Bens Tower.
The Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a chance of 2.3 percent to meet the earth on December 22, 2032, which has made the greatest aliens threat in more than two decades.
Scientists have calculated that the Impact risk -risk ororridor of Space Rock extends from the Pacific Ocean, South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Middle East and in Asia.
This trajectory leads over eight of the 100 best populated cities in the world: Bogotá, Abidjan, Lagos, Khartoum, Mumbai, Kolkata and Dhaka.
The urban area of these cities alone has a combined population of more than 110 million, with the destructive potential of asteroids 2024 YR4 corresponds to 8 million tons – approximately 500 times the power of the atomic bomb fell.
The impact zone would have a radius of about 50 kilometers (30 miles), although NASA and other space agencies are confident that the asteroid is not a serious threat to the earth.
NASA has already successfully tested technologies to distract asteroids, especially during the darts double -seasons -seasons -redirection tests (darts) in 2022, which diverted an asteroid twice as large as Asteroid 2024 YR4.
Another asteroid reduction test carried out by China is to take place on a smaller asteroid in 2027.
Other space agencies are also working on emergency measures for the asteroid, with two non -proportional reaction groups already work to narrow down their trajectory and prepare all the necessary interventions.
Soil -based observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 will continue to be made, while it is still visible from Earth until April before it is fainted until June 2028.
NASA also trains the largest telescope that was ever made on the asteroid to better understand its trajectory, size and composition.
“James Webb Space Telescope of the NASA will watch the asteroids in March 2025,” Moly Wasser from the US space travel agency wrote in a blog contribution at the beginning of this month.
“Since more observations of the asteroid orbit are obtained, its probability of effectiveness is better known. It is possible that Asteroid 2024 YR4 is endangered as an effect, as has happened in many other objects that previously occurred on the NASA asteroid list.
“It is also possible that the probability of efficiency will continue to increase.”
