Asteroid 2024 YR4

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Latest News

Recently, NASA has officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with the moon in 2032.

About Asteroid 2024 YR4

• It is classified as an Apollo-type asteroid, meaning its orbit crosses Earth’s orbit but spends most of its time beyond it.
• Origin: The study reveals YR4 is a solid, stony type that likely originated from an asteroid family in the central Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter,
• It was discovered in 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile.
  • The Y in the asteroid’s name indicates that it was discovered in the last half of December.
  • The R4 indicates that it was the 117th asteroid found in that period.

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Features of Asteroid 2024 YR4

• It is a near Earth asteroid.
• Size: It is somewhere between 174 to 220 feet (53 to 67 meters) in diameter.
• It has an orbital period of 4.011 years, or 1,468 days.
• The asteroid’s rotation period is 19.46 minutes.
• Type: It is most likely an S-type asteroid, which means that it is probably made up primarily of silicates and nickel-iron.

Source: TH