Known as 2024 YR4, the asteroid would collide with the planet in less than a decade. South America is one of the most chances of being impacted.
Sunday night ended up convulsed after revelation by the scientific community of An asteroid Between 40 and 100 meters long that could impact the earth for December 22, 2032.
Known as 2024 YR4the asteroid discovered last December 27 by the Atlas Network, a space monitoring system, It has an estimated diameter of 61 meters, an impact possibility of 2.3% (previous reports indicated a 1.3% possibility) And based on the Turin scale, an instrument created by scientists to measure the virulence of asteroids, is at a level 3.
According to NASA’s space activity analysts, the asteroid will travel the solar system and will eventually reach the orbit of Mars and Jupiter with an approach to planet Earth at its closest point than 106 kilometers away.
As for the places of possible impact on the earth and its consequences, NASA indicates that the Eastern Pacific Ocean arises as the main site and that an impact here could produce great magnitude tsunamis. Another region that would be affected by an eventual impact is northern South America. More precisely Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
With lower impact chances appear in the list made by the scientific community, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the Arabic Sea and the mountainous areas of India and Bangladesh.
Source: Ambito
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