2024 YR4 Asteroid Q&A | How fearful ought to we be? Is there a contingency plan?
There is an opportunity – albeit a small one – that an asteroid may hit planet Earth throughout the subsequent decade.
There is an estimated 3.1% likelihood that the 2024 YR4 asteroid hits Earth, however how fearful ought to we actually be?
Sky’s Tom Clarke and Mickey Carroll reply your questions in a particular Q&A. They shall be joined by Professor Stephen Smartt, Professor of Astrophysics on the University of Oxford and Planetary Scientist Terik Daly
He additionally works on the ATLAS telescope mission, which scans the sky to calculate trajectory of objects like 2024 YR4.
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