Dhaka, Feb. 21 -- NASA has further decreased the chance of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 to Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, to 0.28 per cent, according to the latest NASA estimate on Thursday.

NASA's planetary defense teams will continue to monitor the asteroid to improve predictions of the asteroid's trajectory, said NASA.

With this new data, the chance of an impact with the moon increased slightly to 1 percent, reports Xinhua citing the NASA.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated be about 40 to 90 meters. It was first reported by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile on Jan. 27, 2024.

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