The year is 2024, and humanity is blissfully unaware of the impending threat looming overhead—a colossal asteroid named 2024 YR4 hurtling toward Earth. At first, astronomers mistake its trajectory for a typical near-Earth object that will pass harmlessly by. But as months pass, data reveals an unsettling truth: the asteroid is on a direct collision course with the planet.
The Discovery: It all began when a small observatory in Arizona first detected the asteroid on the radar. At first, scientists brushed it off, thinking it was just another piece of cosmic debris that would come and go. But when the calculations came back, the numbers were terrifying. The asteroid was too big, and its path too precise. It would strike Earth in six years —on a date that would forever be marked in history: December 22, 2032.
The Descent Into Panic: Global governments initially withheld the news from the public, hoping that they could develop a solution before panic set in. But word leaked to the media, and soon, the entire world knew the truth. The asteroid was the size of Mount Everest—almost 30 kilometers across—and its impact would be catastrophic. The Earth's atmosphere would be torn apart, and civilization as we know it would collapse.