A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the ‘city-destroying’ asteroid heading towards Earth. 

And it suggests that Earth isn’t the only object in the firing line. 

According to Dr David Rankin, operations engineer for the University of Arizona‘s Catalina Sky Survey, the moon is also at risk of being hit.  Dr Rankin calculated the route that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is most likely to take.

His calculations indicate that 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.1 per cent, or one in 48, chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032.

This is actually slightly less than previous estimates, which suggested there was a 2.3 per cent (one in 43) chance of impact.

Meanwhile, the scientist predicts there’s a roughly 0.3 per cent (one in 333) chance of 2024 YR4 hitting the moon.

If the asteroid does hit Earth, the impact could release a blast of energy equivalent to 15 megatons of TNT – 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

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