Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

While Earth may no longer be at risk of a calamitous collision with the asteroid, the moon isn't so lucky.

For that reason, researchers have put forth a number of possible plans for scientists to prevent a collision – the most prominent of which is to simply launch a bunch of nukes at the asteroid.

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie " ," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of .

Just nuke it.

But in this case, it's not Earth that is the body under threat. And the plan definitely would not require sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on a harrowing journey to itself.

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