Freak asteroid puts Earth on alert

An asteroid impact greater in magnitude than the Tunguska event,
that felled 80 million trees across 2,150 square kilometres
of Siberia in 1908, could strike the Earth in 2032

ASTEROID 2024 YR4
Size
range

40m 100m

Taj Mahal
to scale

Tunguska: Explosion attributed to
meteor air burst – atmospheric
explosion of stony asteroid that
leaves no impact crater

2024 YR4 IMPACT RISK CORRIDOR

EQUATOR

1400GMT,
Dec 22, 2032

Bogota
COLOMBIA

Yaoundé
CAMEROON

Indore
INDIA

Odds of
hitting Earth:
1-in-67

2024 YR4 ORBIT
: Currently moving
away from Earth at
48,000km/h

Orbit
period:
4.011 years
1,468 days

Dec 27, 2024:
Discovered by
Asteroid
Terrestrialimpact
Last
Alert System
(ATLAS),
Chile

SUN
EARTH
MARS

2024 YR4 being tracked by European
Southern Observatory’s Very
Large Telescope

Sources: Gizmodo, NASA/JPL
Pictures: Newscom, ESO/O/Hainaut et al
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