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

[Sailorsaint]

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 .

They are saying E. Pacific, N. South America, Africa. Said it would be a Tungkuska type of explosion.

 

[superchuck500]

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 .

Astronomers: We have found a 90 meter object that is 7 years away and we calculate it has a 2 percent chance of impact on Earth.

Humans: Yeah but like where FFS?

Astronomers: . . . um, hopefully everywhere

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Astronomers: We have found a 90 meter object that is 7 years away and we calculate it has a 2 percent chance of impact on Earth.

Humans: Yeah but like where FFS?

Astronomers: . . . um, hopefully everywhere

See the post above yours.. although, im not exactly sure what a Tungkuska type of explosion is .

 

[Consigliere]

They are saying E. Pacific, N. South America, Africa. Said it would be a Tungkuska type of explosion.

Let's hope it's in Alabama.

For now on the standard will be "a Tuscaloosa type of explosion."

 

[zatsnzapps]

I'm probably a little rusty, but I spent hours training for this day when I was a young buck. Bring it on.

 

[Rickboy]

Scott Manley does a pretty good job of explaining it. The chance of collision is likely to go up as they get more orbital data but Manley expects those odd will drop to near zero as they track down orbital data from it’s last flyby.

Either way, I think this is an excellent opportunity for NASA to test out their orbital deflection skills.

 

[Sun Wukong]

See the post above yours.. although, im not exactly sure what a Tungkuska type of explosion is .

Tunguska event - Wikipedia

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The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga felled an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness accounts suggest up to three people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) wide.