Odds of asteroid hitting Earth have dropped to 0.28% with more observational data.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/
Asteroid apocalypse 2032 update.
- Thread starter patdog
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Look at Earth guarding the perimeter. Take notes, Jans & crew.
I’m afraid the asteroid has better odds than we do.
We all knew a big drop was coming to the public data. Too risky to paint any other picture. They have no credibility left to lose at this point.
That’s a shame. We need a do-over.
Just got off the phone with the Bryan Building to make my advance pledge and order for 2032 football season tickets. Guaranteed to be an absolutely historic season, folks.
Aren’t we kind of rooting for the asteroid here? I mean.. just to sort of liven the place up?
Mars offered more NIL. Respect its decision.
Saw a couple of good comments on a YouTube video.
according to Hollywood it will 100% hit New York.
if we act quickly enough, we might be able to deflect it to Florida.
I was thinking that NASA reviewed the trajectory and saw it coming off a Cam Matthews ball screen, thus why the lowered the odds to 0.28%. Also proves that Cam really is everywhere. His motor and solid rocket boosters never stop running….
I saw it has a greater chance of hitting the moon. That would not be good at all
I dunno, could then take my bass boat out in the gulf of America
Has anyone claimed climate change as a cause yet?
It’s understood at this point
Moon is smaller than earth & has less gravity. So much smaller chance of it hitting moon. Wouldn’t be a big deal if it did though.
Wouldn't be a big deal if it hit the moon? Seriously?
Uh, yeah. How do you think all those craters got there? This one would be very small compared to a lot of them. Good bit of debris would be thrown up, but most of it would fall back to the moon. What little bit makes its way to earth would just be harmless meteorites that burn up in the atmosphere, like we have every day.
I mean, I feel sure there are worse, slower ways to go than a massive Gulf of 'Merica tidal wave washing the lower half of Mississippi onto your head.
I mean I guess it depends on the size but nothing like that has happened in our life time or in recorded history
The size of what it hits is slightly irrelevant. They are computing the trajectory. Not me. The moon is in fact a bfd. Without it we would cease to exist. Not sure what kind of impact it would have on the moon or its orbit. I dont know enough about that but again the moon is a very big deal to life on this planet
The asteroid is estimated to be 130-300 feet across. The diameter of the moon is 11,400,048 feet...38,000 times greater than the asteroid. I have to agree with patdog on this...there might be a dust up, but I don't think the moon will be going anywhere.
I don't think it would be a big deal if something of that size hit the moon. It's happened many times before. The moon has no atmosphere so it wouldn't break up heading for a lunar impact like it could on earth.
I suppose since the diameter of the moon is smaller than earth's, it would be statistically less likely to hit the moon. And yes, the moon is a huge deal for earthlings and earth. It's also pretty neat that it appears to be exactly the same size as the sun from our vantage point enabling total solar eclipses.
The size is absolutely relevant. Even ignoring gravity, the moon's circumference is 6,786 miles, Earth's is 24,901. Which target is it more likely to hit? Then throw in gravity. Earth is about 81 times as massive as the moon. So it's pulling on the asteroid 81 times harder than the moon is.
When did all the Immunologists, With PhDs in Global Politics and Economy on this board have time to get Astrophysics degrees as well. Y’all are some learned cuntshits.
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Depends on it trajectory. Based on that thought process it will hit Saturn. Again....not my numbers. Read the story. I'm not tracking the 17n thing personally. If it misses us by 278000 miles it's not very likely to hit us.
Apparently, they have updated the trajectory, and you are right. .8%-1% chance of hitting moon with new trajectory. I had not seen that part of the story.
I was referencing a book called Seveneves but now I know the author was just ripping off Thundarr
