[Trending News] Asteroid 2024 YR4 on the way to the earth?

Article Originally Posted in Farsi

NASA warned that an asteroid could soon collide with the earth; a collision that would have devastating consequences for the affected region. Now, in a new report, countries were identified at higher risk.

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The asteroid, called “2024-2024” (2024 YR4), was discovered in late 2024 and is currently moving toward Earth, possibly reaching our planet in 2032.

It is estimated that the asteroid is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, and if it reached Earth with a force of 500 atomic pumps, it could cause so many injured that would be enough to destroy several cities.

Although the probability of reaching the earth remains relatively low, the hypothesis of a collision with Earth recently increased from 1% to 2.3%, causing fears among those living in the “path of danger” identified by NASA.

According to scientists' assessment, if this asteroid reached the earth, the place of impact would probably be somewhere in northern South America, across the Pacific Ocean, southern Asia, Arabic Sea or sub -Saharan Africa.

NASA has appointed India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador as potentially “at risk” countries.

An Arab country was also pointed out as a possible target: Sudan, a large African country with an approximately equivalent area to France, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Germany.

The African country has experienced numerous incidents with meteorites over the years. One of your latest experiences dates back to 2008; When the 2008 TC3 asteroid, 4.1 meters in diameter, exploded about 37 kilometers above Sudan, with fragments scattered throughout the “desert of the nubia”.

A meteorite is a fragment of an asteroid or commits to move through space. Once it enters the atmosphere of the earth, it can be divided into smaller pieces as it burns, creating a meteorite.

The 600 shrapnel of meteorites that have hit the Sudan so far, and are colloquially called “Almahata Sita”, also provided the opportunity for scientists to successfully foresee a collision of asteroids before entering the Earth's atmosphere for the first time; Although the place they predicted for the collision was at some distance from the place of the final impact.

The closter of this “Almahata Sita” attracted a wave of researchers to this land in search of fragments, each containing thousands of microdiamakers and other precious minerals.