The United States and Europe may consider changing the planet’s journey by deploying the interception spacecraft as in NASA’s Dart mission
On December 27, 2024, a planet named 2024 YR4, 100 m width, reached the view of a telescope in Chile, and has since risen to the top of the list of “killer planets” There is a risk of stabbing the planet in the near future.
The measurement results of the Air Agency and the US space (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) showed that the risk of 2024 YR4 attacked the earth on December 22, 2032 increased to 1.3%, according to a sheet, according to a sheet. The Guardian January 30.
The discovery has touched the two asteroid response organizations approved by the United Nations. It is a network of international airlines warnings (including organizations and individuals planning to make efforts to defend the spatial global) and the consulting team planning for the spatial mission (including the member countries of the Lien. The country has a spatial agency).
In particular, the consulting team can propose any intervention plan, such as the spacecraft launching a planet to deviate its flight direction.
Professor Colin Snowgrass at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) said the asteroid 2024 YR4 will be more observed before NASA and ESA can make forecasts about the future of the object.
The threat of 2024 YR4 is ranked 3/10 under the Torino collision risk scale. The only planet that was ranked higher than 2024 YR4 was the Ashis asteroid, which caused a worldwide shock in 2004.
Initially, Apophis was ranked 4/10, before being lowered because the observations showed that the asteroid could not threaten the earth for at least a century.
Professor Gareth Collins of the Royal London University (UK) said the best thing that could do now was to continue watching 2024 YR4 until predicting its exact journey.
The planet size like 2024 YR4 if falling to Earth does not cause extinction events on a large scale as takes place 66 million years ago in dinosaurs (which need a planet size from 10-15 km). Even so, the asteroid width 100 m is still enough to spread the destructive disaster for a city.