Posted on 02/02/2025 4:35:31 PM PST by Libloather
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than an atomic bomb has triggered global space agency alarms.
The odds that the space rock dubbed Y4, which is nearly the size of a football field at between 130 and 300 feet wide, could hit Earth is now too close to ignore, they warn.
“If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week.
The asteroid was first observed on December 27, 2024, from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
The assessment or risk continued to escalate through January 29 — that’s when the International Asteroid Warning Network released a memo on Y4’s threat.
Its sighting prompted a response from the US defenses at NASA. “You get observations, they drop off again. This one looked like it had the potential to stick around,” Kelly Fast, acting planetary defense officer at NASA told AFP.
The likelihood of impact now stands at 1.6%, moving at a speed that would meet Earth by December 22, 2032.
Potential crash sites include the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia, per the IAWN memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
More fear porn.
Trump’s a dealmaker. What would the Chicoms give us if they needed us to shoot it down?
It’s probably too much to hope for.
As usual for the left.
Trump’s fault. Global warming. God’s retribution for J6.
Quick give Nasa hundreds of billions of dollars to protect us” Screams NASA
In the fine print “The likelihood of impact now stands at 1.6%...in 2032”
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they will first steal technology from us to figure out where it may impact. if them, they will beg for help and if us they will actually like we are idiots and wait. Americans really have no clue.
Did you notice the “potential crash sites”? They include the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia.
Yes!!!!!
"The secret of life is to replace one worry with another!" Charles Schultz IIRC (Tongue in cheek...)
I PRAY it hits china.
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Don’t worry, after you pay your mortgage off you will learn your home can act as collateral for an investment property.
I guess I should take Social Security at 62 rather than wait.
That narrows it down, doesn’t it?
Do we know what city?
Charlotte: OH no! New York? Lets watch!
moving at a speed that would meet Earth by December 22
Odd phrasing. Usually the exact date of nearest approach is known. With a 1.6% chance of impact, that gives cross section area of 61 times Earth's cross section, or a location uncertainty of a circle about 32,000 miles.
The actual big one will sink 1/3 of the ships in the sea and kill 1/3 of the marine life.
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