Friday, February 7, 2025

Something to look forward to in eight years? Only if it hits us...

According to Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (Cneos), the odds of a strike in 2032 by the space rock that goes by the somewhat unassuming name 2024 YR are calculated to be 2.3% – a one-in-43 chance.Barely a week ago, the European Space Agency (Esa) gave the asteroid a 1.3% chance of hitting the planet on 22 December that year, the day it will make its closest approach to Earth. Or, phrased another way, it had an almost 99% probability of passing by without incident.
At up to 300ft (90 metres) in width, according to Nasa-funded skywatchers who spotted it from a telescope in Chile just before new year, the object is roughly the same size as the Tunguska asteroid that flattened about 830 square miles (2,150 sq km) of remote Siberian forest when it exploded in 1908.
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4 comments:

  1. Last night would have been a great night for an asteroid to hit. I was sleeping so sound for a change I'd never have felt it.

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  2. So the question is...
    Can somebody develop tractor beam technology by 2032 to bring that asteroid to DC?

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  3. Don't worry, this is nothing some extra new taxes can't fix.

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  4. Id like to worry. But arent these the same folk that found a tesla orbiting mars a few weeks ago?

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