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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: grateful on February 14, 2025, 01:56:12 pm
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NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from the agency’s initial estimate of 1.2% in late January.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-says-yes-asteroid-buzzing-2032-hit-earth-rcna191951 (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-says-yes-asteroid-buzzing-2032-hit-earth-rcna191951)
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To me that seems really high!
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Its the highest on the official list:
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/
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Its the highest on the official list:
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/
and here I always thought the Palermo scale was for weighing out your pasta alla Norma
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This trajectory takes it over eight of the top 100 most populated cities in the world: Bogotá, Abidjan, Lagos, Khartoum, Mumbai, Kolkata and Dhaka.
The urban area of these cities alone have a combined population of more than 110 million, with the destructive potential of Asteroid 2024 YR4 equivalent to 8 million tons of TNT – roughly 500 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-nasa-risk-corridor-b2699847.html
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I saw a tweet where someone was asking "what is that converted into giraffes"
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/asteroid-the-size-of-football-field-has-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-8-years-7637715
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So we'll be ok in the DMV. I just hope it doesn't raise egg prices any higher than where they are currently.
This trajectory takes it over eight of the top 100 most populated cities in the world: Bogotá, Abidjan, Lagos, Khartoum, Mumbai, Kolkata and Dhaka.
The urban area of these cities alone have a combined population of more than 110 million, with the destructive potential of Asteroid 2024 YR4 equivalent to 8 million tons of TNT – roughly 500 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-nasa-risk-corridor-b2699847.html