Earth safe from ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 ‘That’s impact probability zero folks!’
https://www.space.com/the-universe/asteroids/earth-safe-from-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4-thats-impact-probability-zero-folks
Earth safe from ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 ‘That’s impact probability zero folks!’
https://www.space.com/the-universe/asteroids/earth-safe-from-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4-thats-impact-probability-zero-folks
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Eh, honestly that’s not exciting.
With any luck, this will be reviewed and we will get better odds. An asteroid with a high chance of hitting the earth is exactly what the international space community needs.
To be completely honest, I am a bit disappointed.
They couldn’t even let us have this one good thing
Can NASA do a redirect to put it back on Earth-collision course?
5 Gold pieces says that Trumps claims he did this.
And the award for least surprising headline ever goes to…
Now watch every news outlet that carried the previous report with a clickbait headline say nothing about this.
Awww, that means no more “city killer” and “worried NASA astronomers” clickbait headlines…
“Nothing Ever Happens” gang eating good tonight
Told yall, can I have my upvotes now when you all downvoted me for saying it was gonna be 0% soon
Don’t fall for it guys! This thing is now guaranteed to hit us so now they are staving off the panic! Click click.
Will it be bright enough on 12/22/32 to see it with the naked eye?
will we be able to see it? Will it pass close enough for that?
Wow! Some good news. That’s a welcome surprise.
In this timeline…. We’re gonna get Melancholiad.
The real mathematical geniuses took notice and did the maths and said its zero.
At least 99942 Apophis gave us a multi-year sweat.
Can we change the trajectory of the asteroid? Plzthx
Ahhh dangit I was hoping it would take me out
Can we send a crew up there like In Deep Impact to put it back on course for a collision?
Ah, well. Back to climate change or the AI apocalypse.
I told you those bugs were afraid! Do your part citizens!
It’s technically not zero, nothing is ever zero. Earth is outside The 3 sigma error bars of the calculated trajectory. Effectively zero, but technically not.
lol someone at a space administration was just sick of their Reddit feed being completely overrun with this single issue so they made a model to make it look like a miss so we don’t have to hate about this every second of the day for years
I *really* wish NASA would wait on stuff like this. They almost immediately came out and said it had a chance of hitting earth, then even upgraded it a week later. A ton of people panicked, and are still panicking. Not a single major news network will run this update, and people will still continue to beleve this is a threat. Super irresponsible.
Can we get a trump map showing the course changed with a sharpie?