Panic?
I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Submitted 1 year ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
don’t worry, it’ll just be like a small nuke, not a planet killer… (until they update the size estimates)
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%
This place sucks.
Cform@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll only panic if it misses
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year 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 year ago
Yes, please!
casmael@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Okay so how big is this meteor then
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How many giraffes is it tho
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
It’s around 1000 millimeteors
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
130 - 400 meters
everett@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
SARGE@startrek.website 1 year ago
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 year ago
Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 year ago
Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
should I mention “don’t look up” ?
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that was Trump chances in 2016…
parpol@programming.dev 1 year 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.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Well that’s disappointing
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’ll be an equatorial impact.
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch
SARGE@startrek.website 1 year 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.
hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
is there any way to hurry it along?
MrTrono@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Am I supposed to panic because it’s unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I’m out here wishing for death by meteor.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.