British scientist Dr Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist, has warned that it might be presently to late to try to distract” city killer” meteor 2024 YR4 which is coming toward Earth and has a one in 43 possibility of striking Earth in 2032. Because the meteor is as high as Pisa’s Leaning Tower, if it does, it will have disastrous effects, depending on where the hit lands. If it strikes property, it could wipe out places and if it land in the sea, the results would be little.
Discovered in December 2024, YR4 now ranks 3 out of 10 on the Torino Scale. NASA announced that it would be using the James Webb Space Telescope to overserve the meteor. When the first round of Nasa studies is scheduled for March 2025, the meteorite will be at its brightest. The follow-up will take place in May when YR4 moves away from the Sun. This will be the final opportunity to study it before it returns in 2028.
The DART ( the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ), according to the UK scientist, was successful in 2022 in removing a 580-foot-wide asteroid from orbit. However, this does not imply that any meteor may become deflected” when we want” using this method.
” The first is that meteorites like Dimorphos, and smaller, tend to be dust piles: not good single stones, but boulders softly bound by their own weight. Hitting them simply right can make that debris-like put impact, but if you hit them very hard, you’ll ruin them”, he explained.
” Anyone wants to unintentionally” disrupt” an comet, because those components may also head for Earth. As I usually say, it’s like turning a ball into a pistol spray”.
” This is chaotic, potentially very destructive—and if DART hit Dimorphos a little harder, it would have broken that asteroid too. When you strike an meteor that is Earthbound, you must be absolutely certain that you are deflecting rather than fragmenting it.
“DART isn’t a magic bullet for the second reason you don’t believe it’s because deflectionist as you think.” Well, the orbit shrank a bit. You don’t, though, know how many Dimorphos really moves. The shift in frequency delivered by the effect was 2.7mm/s”, the scholar explained.
