A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said on Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1 per cent.

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 per cent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention”. First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid—designated 2024 YR4—is estimated to be 130 ft to 330 ft (40 metres to 100 metres) across.