NASA has allayed fears that this year, a lost 54-million-ton asteroid might strike Earth and wipe out major portions of the world.

In reaction to a report published in November by, which claimed that 2007 FT3 had little chance of striking Earth in 2024, the space agency released a statement.

Having first detected the 984-foot asteroid in 2007, scientists finally lost sight of it and labeled it as a “lost asteroid.”

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stated at the time that there was a 1 in 11.5 million possibility of the asteroid hitting Earth on October 5, 2024, or an approximately 1 in 10 million chance of it hitting Earth by March 3, 2030.

According to NASA, there are no known risks of an asteroid impacting Earth in the next century. In order to detect, monitor, and classify asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs), particularly those that approach Earth, NASA and its partners carefully scan the sky.”

Prior to losing sight of the asteroid, scientists were able to gather data on it. The asteroid was added to NASA’s Sentry Risk Table, a list of objects that may have an impact on Earth.