A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the space rock has a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency's risk assessment sits at 2.8%.
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In another "cost-cutting" move, the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy fires staff. This is the group that found the asteroid that may hit Earth. Don't look up!
We now all have some serious thinking to do, long and hard, about what each and every one of us can do, individually, in our everyday lives, to help make that 3.1% chance of hitting Earth a little bit higher.
Why does this feel like they already know it is going to hit us, and the strategy is to to "ease" us into knowing that by increasing that percentage incrementally over months?
Probably not, but that certainly occurred to me. If you know what the "problem of n-bodies" is, or even the now popular "3-body problem" ('cause of the TV series) you know why they probably just can't say exactly where it'll be.
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Can we aim at putin?☄️
#SalvaUkraini 😎✌🏼🇺🇦
I have to ask Elon if I can be his friend. 🚀
Like 6 years or so sooner….