Better late than never I guess.
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz
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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I’m not even joking. I want this asteroid to hit our planet and make us all go the way of the dinos.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yes, please!
parpol@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
To people having panic attacks, it is not large enough to destroy the earth, and we would have plenty of time to evacuate the impact location. Though let’s hope it isn’t anywhere with permafrost.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch
hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
SARGE@startrek.website 1 week ago
Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Well that’s disappointing
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It’ll be an equatorial impact.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 week ago
Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.
Cform@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ll only panic if it misses
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
SARGE@startrek.website 1 week ago
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
should I mention “don’t look up” ?
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that was Trump chances in 2016…
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
is there any way to hurry it along?
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope…
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
don’t worry, it’ll just be like a small nuke, not a planet killer… (until they update the size estimates)
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%
This place sucks.
casmael@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Okay so how big is this meteor then
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
It’s around 1000 millimeteors
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How many giraffes is it tho
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.
everett@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
130 - 400 meters
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Panic?
I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Technically the solar system is a multi-body system, and everything nudges everything else, but the mass of the earth is far greater than the mass of the asteroid, to the point that it doesn’t matter.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I wonder if the “important” people know the chances are higher, so they’re going for broke in order to build their escape ship.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
MrTrono@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Am I supposed to panic because it’s unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I’m out here wishing for death by meteor.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not to be a doomer but most of us will be dead by then I just hope the meteor takes out any lucky oligarchs still alive in a bunker.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’ll take one for the team. I go to the point of impact and when it finaly hits, I’m gonna try to punch it back into orbit.
You don’t have to thank me.