Better late than never I guess.
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Submitted 1 month ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz
Comments
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month 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 month ago
Yes, please!
parpol@programming.dev 1 month 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 1 month ago
You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch
hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
SARGE@startrek.website 1 month 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 1 month ago
Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Well that’s disappointing
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’ll be an equatorial impact.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 month ago
Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.
Cform@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ll only panic if it misses
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
SARGE@startrek.website 1 month ago
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
should I mention “don’t look up” ?
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 month ago
that was Trump chances in 2016…
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
is there any way to hurry it along?
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month 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 month ago
Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%
This place sucks.
casmael@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Okay so how big is this meteor then
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
It’s around 1000 millimeteors
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 month ago
How many giraffes is it tho
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.
everett@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
130 - 400 meters
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Panic?
I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
Idea@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 month ago
MrTrono@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago
You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 1 month 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.