New Delhi:
A big danger towards the earth is increasing rapidly. A statement has come out from the US space agency NASA. The agency has said that asteroid is so dangerous that it can destroy an entire city. There is a 3.1 percent apprehension of this rock to hit the earth by 2032. However, it has also been said by the agency that there is no need to panic about it. The name of this asteroid is 2024 YR4. James Web Space Telescope is about to start monitoring it from next month.
Are scientists upset?
Bruce Bates, the chief scientist of the Planetary Society, while talking with the news agency AFP on the issue, said that I am not nervous but it is natural that when there is an increase in the possibility of an asteroid to hit the earth, then you are not happy. Can be But at the same time he said that as we have the data related to it, the possibility of colliding with it will be zero.
The 2024 YRR4 was first detected by El Sauce Observatorry of Chile on 27 December last year. Astronomers estimate that its size is 130 to 300 feet (40–90 m) wide depending on its brightness. The analysis of its light signals suggests that it is made of a rare metal.
The International Asteroid Warning Network which has been monitored by the worldly issued a warning on 29 January. At that time, the possibility of colliding with its earth was 1 percent. Since then, this figure has been full of ups and downs, but the problem has been increasing continuously. According to NASA’s latest calculations, the possibility of effect is 3.1 percent, and it can hit the Earth on December 22, 2032.
How dangerous is this asteroid?
Experts believe that if it collides with the Earth, it can explode 8 megaton TNT, which will be more powerful than 500 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This Esteroid is currently the only large estateroid, whose possibility of hitting the earth is more than 1 percent. It can hit parts of countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador.
Earlt will be done to all the countries of the world as the danger increases
If the risk increases more than 10 percent, the IAWN will issue a formal warning, resulting in “preparations for all United Nations members located in potentially dangerous areas. It is extremely smaller than the six miles wide (10 km wide) asteroids, that is why it will not cause havoc all over the world but in the condition of ruining a big city. it is.
If it enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it is most likely that it will be destroyed in the air itself. However, this explosion can be very destructive. It can prove to be more than 500 times powerful compared to the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima.
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