By james art 
Scientists put the chances of strike at just over 1%.
“We are not worried at all, because of this 99% likely to miss,” says Paul Chodas, director of the NASA nearby sites. “But that deserves attention.”
First noticed last month by a telescope in Chile, the near Earthly asteroid-a defined 2024-estimated at 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 meters).
Scientists are following a close -up of Space Rock, which is currently moving away from the ground. As the path of the asteroid around the sun becomes better understood, G -n Chodas and others said that the risk of Earth would fall to zero.
The asteroid will gradually fade from watching over the next few months, according to NASA and the European Space Agency.
Until then, some of the most powerful telescopes in the world will continue to watch it better to better determine its size and path. Once it is out of sight, it will not be visible until our journey has passed again in 2028.
The asteroid approached the Earth at Christmas – passing within about 500,000 miles (800,000 km) of land, about twice the distance to the moon. It was found two days later.
Chodas said scientists have been reviewing studies in the sky since 2016, when forecasts show that the asteroid also joined nearby.
If scientists can find Space Rock in images since then, they should be able to determine whether it will hit or miss the planet, he told the Associated Press.
“If we do not find this discovery, the likelihood of impact will simply move slowly as we add more observations,” he said.
The Earth is closed by an asteroid of this size every few thousand years, according to ESA, with potential for severe damage. That is why this one now tops the list of asteroids of ESA.
The potential impact will occur on December 22, 2032. It is too early to know where it can land if it hit the ground.
The good news, according to NASA, is that so far no other major asteroids are unlikely to affect more than 1%.