Asteroid 2024 YR4 probability hitting Earth just doubled

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/prof-brian-cox-issues-warning-as-asteroids-chances-of-hitting-earth-double-475101

Not a dooms day event, not a planet killer, but a city killer for sure.

Probability just went from 1% to 2% with it hitting somewhere between the Pacific and Indea near the equator, but the impact zone is also adjusting more north.

International planetary defense strategy is being put in place. Leave it alone, nudge it, or nuke it?

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So from 99% chance of missing to 98%

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Yes, but Nasa announced the probability of impact is expected to grow.

So you think we’ll all still be here by then?

If it gets over 50% I will book my Christmas holidays early that year :wink:

Forumosa is forever. :upside_down_face:

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Inshallah.

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If it hits, I hope it wipes out all the ads I had to close to read the story.

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1 more % and we are at covid panic levels.

Regardless of this individual space blobs percent, we have overwhelming evidence this happens and almost certainly will happen again. It could possibly be quite existential in the most literal sense. Seems logical governments work together and spend real cash and real effort on early detection and preventative measures.

  • … +1 (edit because the software made the plus sign into a bullet point) +1 for more funding to nasa, Esa etc.
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