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    Asteroid headed towards Earth might smash into the Moon, scientists say

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    1. mreddog on

      “New calculations suggest that a large asteroid recently predicted to have an increased odds of striking Earth could miss the planet and might instead impact the the Moon.

      Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or Cneos, reviewed the trajectory of the asteroid 2024 YR4 and found that its odds of striking the planet in 2032 doubled to 2.3 per cent up from about 1 per cent.”

    3. Esc777 on

      I’m putting chips on it hitting the moon. 

      But it hits the dark side of the moon. All the buildup and no one gets to see it. 

    9. WlNNIPEGJETS on

      According to NASA, this event only happens once in a blue moon.

      When reached for comment, the Moon stated that the Asteroid better watch out for its Dark Side.

    11. UndeadDemonKnight on

      The update I read was that there is now an updated calculation of a one in fourty-two chance of hitting Earth.

    18. Vivid-Intention-8161 on

      Hm. I’m dumb, what would happen if this happened? Would it affect the tides or like, worse lol

    19. bakawakaflaka on

      idk what it was about this title but it made me laugh harder than I have in quite while.

      that felt good

    20. whiskeyrocks1 on

      This is what we’re all afraid of this year? This is getting the clicks? It’s not sharks or old people driving or randomly being punched by a stranger? It possibly getting hit by an asteroid in like 12 years. The odds are so slim and yet it’s everywhere on the news feeds.

    21. Metazolid on

      Knowing my luck with fluking out on that massive aurora borealis last year and missing that cool comet as well, it’s probably going to be during daytime with the moon barely visible.

    22. South-Bank-stroll on

      When exactly? Cos I’d like to book a holiday to the Maldives on a credit card if I know I don’t have to pay it back…

    26. Coldatahd on

      Man they keep teasing me with these asteroids, need a big one to actually hit already. Quit fkin around.

    27. Royal_Promotion on

      If it does it will be one of the best opportunities for scientific observation of this sort of impact since Schumacher-Levy.

    28. Strict-Childhood-629 on

      I had a dream where a piece of the moon fell on me while I was visiting a city with skyscrapers.

      Nothing I could do but accept the inevitable.

      Terrifying.

    31. Tribalbob on

      “Might” smash into moon?

      Guys, I get judging celestial bodies trajectory can be tricky, but that’s kind of your thing.

    32. Designer-Cherry-6677 on

      until it turns out that its an armor piercing asteroid, now we gotta put kevlar on the moon, just seems like a lot of work honestly.

    33. Darth_Atheist on

      If that’s the case, hope it doesn’t change the moon’s orbit to create a “Moon Fall”-type scenario!

    34. JoshuaSweetvale on

      Luna: being a big magnet for space rocks since 3.000.000.000 BC (Give or take a billion)

      Jupiter does the same thing in macroscale.

      It’s almost like life has flourished in a relatively meteor-safe area :v

    35. Individual-Can-7639 on

      What happens if it does smash into the moon? Do we have to send a task force out and defend it’s honour or something?

      I know it sounds silly but at the same time we can’t just be letting our inter-galactic neighbours take potshots at our the moon just because they’re bored. It’s not funny and it’s pretty dangerous and if we let them do it they’ll just keep doing it