New NASA photos show great asteroids that may affect the ground in 2032

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(KTLA) – A newly released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of influencing the planet in seven years.

The animation provided by the NASA-funded Asteroidal Bill-based Country Alarm System (Atlas) 22 December 2032.

“Currently, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%,” NASA said in one release.

While there is still a nearly 99% chance that 2024 YR4 will not affect the Earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that this rare asteroid poses a significant risk – to judge it in Turin Scale 3, which is uncommon.

NASAS JET Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said this object is on the risk list because Atlas researchers have observed a gradual increase in effects of effect of the month since the discovery of the existence of asteroid.

“On January 27, it surpassed 1%, an important threshold,” JPL wrote in one News message. “In the unlikely case that 2024 YR4 is on an influence of influence, the effect would occur somewhere along a risk corridor that extends across the Eastern Pacific, northern South America, the Atlantic, Africa, the Arab Sea and South Asia.”

The images in the animation were caught by an atlas telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, 1st Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close approach to the Earth”, which became light enough to be discovered in asteroid studies, according to JPL.

JPL said the size estimate is based on measurements of 2024 YR4’s brightness. “The size cannot be further limited without thermal infrared observations, radar observations or images from a spacecraft that could closely approach the asteroid,” reads JPL’s release.

“These analyzes will change from day to day when several observations are gathered,” added JPL.

From NASA’s latest report, there is a 0% chance that 2024 YR4 will hit the ground on its next track in 2028 – but it may bring it close enough for further observations.

“New observations can result in redistribution of this asteroid to 0 when more data comes in,” NASA said.