Space agencies actively monitoring large asteroid’s threat to Earth

We expect the impact probability to go to zero rather than 100%,

Rivkin said

However, given this is a special case, members of the community have requested (and received) time on some of the larger and more capable facilities,

Rivkin said

The most likely outcome is that further observations will rule out an impact,

Rankin said

The international systems we’re putting in place to find, track and characterize – and, if it comes to it, mitigate the impacts of – hazardous asteroids and comets are working as intended,

said Andy Rivkin, an astronomer and planetary defence researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland

It’s not a number you want to ignore, but it’s not a number you need to lose sleep over,

Rankin said

The possibility that 2024 YR4 might impact in 2032 was identified right after discovery,

said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the NASA center