Asteroid approaching the Earth, a 15 -storey building height – Cyprus Newspaper

NASA announced that the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which created a short -term panic due to the possibility of hitting the world, is the size of a building.

WebB Space Telescope obtained detailed images of the asteroid, which is thought to hit the world in 2032.

The asteroid, which was discovered last year and the probability of hitting the world as 3 percent, caused a global concern.

However, the additional observations showed that this threat was almost zero. Nevertheless, the asteroid is likely to hit the Moon.

It passes near the world every four years

Images published by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) show that asteroid is about 60 meters in diameter, ie a 15 -storey building.

Although WebB is the largest and most powerful telescope sent to space, this asteroid has been the smallest object he has observed so far.

Johns Hopkins University astronomer Andrew Rivkin said that observations made by WeBB are a very important trial to follow the asteroids that may pose a threat to the world in the future.

The telescopes in the grounds continued to watch this space rock in recent months. “These observations provide us with very important information about other asteroids of 2024 YR4 and help us understand potential threats to the world in the future, Riv