{"id":22732,"date":"2025-02-25T00:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T01:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22732"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:23:01","slug":"earth-safe-from-asteroid-2024-yr4-nasa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22732","title":{"rendered":"Earth Safe From Asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.<\/p>\n

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A NASA video showing the shifting odds that Asteroid 2024 YR4 would crash into Earth.<\/span>Graphics by Nasa Jpl\/cneos<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Astronomers have been carefully watching 2024 YR4, a space rock with a heightened chance of hitting Earth in 2032. But fear not: NASA announced<\/a> on Monday that it posed a threat no longer \u2014 the odds that the asteroid would smash into our planet have dropped to nearly zero.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew this was likely to go away as we collected more data,\u201d said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. \u201cI was sleeping pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days after skywatchers reported their observations of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 27, 2024, scientists calculated that it had more than a 1 percent chance of striking Earth \u2014 the only large asteroid<\/a> known to have an impact probability so big.<\/p>\n

As scientists studied more data on the object, the odds of impact continued to rise through January and February, from 1.2 percent to a peak of 3.1 percent on Tuesday last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That may sound small, but the probability was higher than any ever recorded by NASA<\/a> for an object of this size or bigger.<\/p>\n

Somewhere between 130 and 300 feet wide, 2024 YR4 is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. Early estimates of the asteroid\u2019s trajectory showed it could possibly slam into or explode in the air over large metropolitan areas, including Mumbai, India, and Lagos, Nigeria. <\/p>\n

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The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.A NASA video showing the shifting odds that Asteroid 2024 YR4 would crash into Earth.Graphics by Nasa Jpl\/cneosAstronomers have been carefully watching 2024 YR4, a space rock with a heightened chance of hitting Earth in 2032. But fear not: NASA announced on Monday that it posed a threat no longer \u2014 the odds that the asteroid would smash into our planet have dropped to nearly zero.\u201cI knew this was likely to go away as we collected more data,\u201d said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. \u201cI was sleeping pretty well.\u201dDays after skywatchers reported their observations of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 27, 2024, scientists calculated that it had more than a 1 percent chance of striking Earth \u2014 the only large asteroid known to have an impact probability so big.As scientists studied more data on the object, the odds of impact continued to rise through January and February, from 1.2 percent to a peak of 3.1 percent on Tuesday last week.That may sound small, but the probability was higher than any ever recorded by NASA for an object of this size or bigger.Somewhere between 130 and 300 feet wide, 2024 YR4 is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. Early estimates of the asteroid\u2019s trajectory showed it could possibly slam into or explode in the air over large metropolitan areas, including Mumbai, India, and Lagos, Nigeria. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22734,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22735,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22732\/revisions\/22735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}