Building-sized asteroid won't hit Earth, but has a 4% chance of striking the Moon in 2032
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-spots-large-asteroid-collision-150018778.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE2jPTFzEA1BYbdhVK9N94K2X0PI5OefW2yfp5fbIUWi9HmibV7Q_cKl7vvaEwYBRLRYACZI5JbhyAzPMQQg0yTehTCn86jMs_5ziV-tF3xYqZFEpgWYpVg8WEzvXBDdqw9K2YGWrjLMF9W8kFq9BcbzvwIHCqI9hZSAChRyxWR6
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Can you convert the size of a building to bananas, please.
Wow, this is some slowpoke-meme level work from Yahoo. Here’s the ESA release with the same 4% number from late June. https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Will_asteroid_2024_YR4_hit_the_Moon
TLDR: Very large rock as far as rocks go, not so large as far as Asteroids go, is going to splat on the moon. It likely will not cause any issues in our life times if any issues come from this at all.
Does anyone have its mass in hamburgers? I’m American.
Wasn’t there a movie about this wherein the moon sways out of orbit due to an asteroid and eventually the moon hits Earth after 3-4 days???
I thought ‘half of a giraffe’ was the standard gauge for objects of this type?