Made The updated identikit of 2024 YR4the asteroid discovered in 2024 and that was feared could hit the earth in 2032: according to the latest online observations on Arxiv, the platform that collects the studies still to be submitted to the revision of the scientific community, and led by Bryce Bolin of Eureka Scientific in the United States, which was also attended by the Italian Roberto Bonamico of the BSA private observatory in Savigliano in the province of Cuneo, theAsteroid recalls a 50 meters hockey disc in diameter and would have had Origin from the central band of asteroids.
Discovered on December 27, 2024 From the Atlas observatory conceived precisely to hunt dangerous asteroids, 2024 YR4 immediately attracted everyone’s attention because the first calculations on his orbit they indicated thehigh risk of its possible impact with the earth. Forecasts that over time have gradually become more accurate and led to exclude dangers for our planet, even if rEsta a small possibility that 2024 YR4 may however Hit the moon in 2032.
New observationsusing a network of telescopes including Gemini del Noirlab, have now allowed to better understand the characteristics of the asteroid which should be a Single block of Rocca and have an unusual flattened shape, a sort of hockey disc with a diameter between 30 and 65 meters which rotates counterclockwise in about 20 minutes.
“The form of the asteroid – Bolin said – provides us with clues to how it has formed and on its structural integrity. Knowing these properties is essential to determine how effort or what type of technique it is necessary to use to divert the asteroid if a threat was considered”. On the basis of these characteristics, researchers also hypothesize that 2024 YR4 originated from the so -called main band of asteroids, a region that finds between Mars and Jupiter and full of objects of various sizes, and that it could be released due to some gravitational disturbance with Jupiter.
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