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casmael, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Okay so how big is this meteor then

everett,

Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?

dellish,

Is it meteoric?

everett,

The meteorest.

Norgoroth,
@Norgoroth@lemmy.world avatar

130 - 400 meters

GooberEar,

It’s around 1000 millimeteors

threelonmusketeers,

Listed in the article:

Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide

spongeborgcubepants,

How many giraffes is it tho

threelonmusketeers,
Comment105,

Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.

psud,

Were it to hit it would hit like a large nuke

Yawweee877h444, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%

This place sucks.

psud,

It’s not big enough to fix anything. If it hits, it won’t hit America or Europe

It’s in the big nuke scale of energy, enough to do a lot of damage to a small area. Were it to hit a city, the city would need a lot of rebuilding. Were it to hit, few people would be in danger as we will have years of warning. The only people in the impact area would be “storm chasers” travelling to see the impact

vga, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?

Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes here right now. Show that stupid asteroid.

rickyrigatoni,

Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.

threelonmusketeers,

Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?

rickyrigatoni,

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts

Krik,

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts boosters

Fixed it for you.

rickyrigatoni,

Alas, without the struts, the boosters shall return unto The Lord, leaving thine kerbalnauts Kerbinbound.

Comment105,

You think humanity would be in this spot if the average person had a fucking clue whatsoever?

Rivalarrival,
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Tell me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program without telling me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program.

SARGE,
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Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

Majorllama, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
@Majorllama@lemmy.world avatar

Which direction do I need to fart to up those numbers?

Uranus_Hz, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.

Etterra, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I’m team asteroid.

cazssiew, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
GrumpyDuckling, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I wonder if the “important” people know the chances are higher, so they’re going for broke in order to build their escape ship.

parpol, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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,

You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch

hungprocess,
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SARGE,
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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,

Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.

photonic_sorcerer,
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It’ll be an equatorial impact.

SuperSaiyanSwag,

Well that’s disappointing

shadowedcross, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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Sterile_Technique, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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Comment105,

I’m not even joking. I want this asteroid to hit our planet and make us all go the way of the dinos.

Captainautism,

Yes, please!

InFerNo, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?

threelonmusketeers,

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.

Cform, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Coreidan, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I’ll only panic if it misses

solsangraal, w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?

Chakravanti,

Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.

burgersc12,
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