On Friday, the European Space Agency (ESA) updated the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which would hit Earth in 2032, to 2.2%, putting it at the top of the agency’s risk list.
The asteroid, estimated to be 40-90 meters wide (130-300 feet), was discovered by the University of Hawaii Astronomy Institute in late December. The discovery activates the global asteroid response mechanism after the possibility of impact with Earth exceeded international monitoring thresholds.
A few weeks after the discovery of the asteroid, the Special Project Center of the Defense Industry Bureau of China’s Science and Technology Industry Bureau posted a recruitment notice listing three available roles for the “Planet Defense Post.”
The Center for Aerospace Engineering Research, Implementation and Earth Observation has announced that, according to a notification posted to the Chinese Journal of Space Science and Technology’s WeChat account last month, alumni can study asteroid surveillance and create early warning methods. We are looking for it.
There are various ways you can use to try to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. In the world’s first planetary defense test in 2022, US space agency NASA changed the asteroid’s trajectory by colliding with it.
