New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- An asteroid - '2024 YRF' - discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ALERT) in Chile on December 27, 2024, is being called 'city destroyer' by people online due to its size, speed, and the possibility of hitting Earth in the near future, with India among countries on its radar.

Estimated to be about 40 to 90 meters wide, 2024 YR4 has an average 2 per cent chance of hitting Earth, on December 22, 2032.

According to Dr Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, this size range is comparable to that of a large building.

As per NASA, in the unlikely event of 2024 YR4 being on a collision trajectory, the impact would occur somewhere along a 'risk corridor,' which e...