Coloradans Need Not Worry About Asteroid That May Hit Us In 2032

"You don't have to worry about anything," says the Senior Software Developer a the University of Hawaii, where Asteroid 2024 YR was discovered back in December. Though the original odds the asteroid would hit earth were placed at about 1%, those odds have now increased to about 2%.

2% still is obviously very small, but you know, it's 100% more percent - or "doubled" - since the original forecast, depending on how you want to describe it.

The asteroid is roughly 130 to 300 feet wide. A football field is 100 yards between the endzones, or 300 feet. So think of it being about as large as the playing surface at Mile High.

But Coloradans need not be worried about it hitting us, because the odds it will are only about 2%.

By the way, the current forecast would be for it to collide with earth sometime in 2032.

NASA, however, says the odds it will hit earth will likely drop to zero as they continue to research its size and trajectory. They say even though the odds have increased that this was expected, and they imagine they'll be able to rule out a strike soon, much like they did back in 2021 - the last time we were told we were on a collision course with a giant space rock.

Many of us around here remember the last time some space rocks came hurling through our atmosphere, when a meteor streaked across the skies of Colorado, back in 2023.

Asteroid 2024 YR will be best visible from earth in March of this year until it apparently goes out of view again until 2028. Hopefully they can rule it out by then, otherwise we're going to need the Armageddon crew to reunite and fire up the space ships.