A Football Field Sized Asteroid's Probability Of Hitting Earth In 2032 Keeps Going Up By The Day (1 Viewer)

[HoustonGold]

Consider yourself warned! The chances are slowly going up!

Great News: A Football Field Sized Asteroid's Probability Of Hitting Earth In 2032 Keeps Going Up By The Day

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If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week.

 

[Semper]

I did some reading on this earlier. From what I understand the chances are 99% it will not hit earth and those odds will only get better the closer it gets.

The interesting thing is we already have a plan in place to knock it out of the sky. Lot of cool stuff going on up there.

 

[Mamba]

 

[efil4stnias]

 

[Semper]

Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic

Space rock now has 2.3% risk of collision – up from 1.3% in December – but danger is likely to fall with more data

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The planetary defense coordination office of Nasa, the US space agency, agrees.

“There have been several objects in the past that have risen on the risk list and eventually dropped off as more data have come in,” researcher Molly Wasser said in a statement.

“New observations may result in reassignment of this asteroid to zero as more data come in.”

Colin Snodgrass, professor of planetary astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, told the Guardian last week: “Most likely this one will pass by harmlessly.

“It just deserves a little more attention with telescopes until we can confirm that. The longer we follow its orbit, the more accurate our future predictions of its trajectory become.”

Other recent similar scares would appear to reinforce the message.

The asteroid 99942 Apophis, discovered in 2004 and larger than the Eiffel Tower, was once given a rating of four on the Torino scale, but was eventually calculated to be no threat to Earth on any of its close passes for at least the next 100 years.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Asteroid: I’m thinking of crashing into you and destroying most life
Decision making population: no fair, that’s our idea!!

 

[Buickman]

I'll admit, when I saw Bezos and Zuckerberg joining up with Musk and Trump, the movie 2012 immediately popped up in my head.

 

[Sun Wukong]

We aren't lucky enough for that thing to hit.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Earth is a big place.. maybe i missed it, but is there any indication of *where* on planet Earth this thing might hit ? That seems kinda important .

 

[0rion]

Earth is a big place.. maybe i missed it, but is there any indication of *where* on planet Earth this thing might hit ? That seems kinda important .

I just assumed my address. That's just how things go around here.

 

[Semper]

This would be similar to what happened in Russia a few years ago.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

This would be similar to what happened in Russia a few years ago.

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[superchuck500]

Finally some good news

 

[HoustonGold]

I did some reading on this earlier. From what I understand the chances are 99% it will not hit earth and those odds will only get better the closer it gets.

The interesting thing is we already have a plan in place to knock it out of the sky. Lot of cool stuff going on up there.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Finally some good news

Meh. Good news would've been them finding Dibiasky's Comet!