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An asteroid big enough to destroy a city has a 1.9% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032.
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| February 5, 2025
| Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
Posted on 02/05/2025 4:29:26 PM PST by grundle
An asteroid big enough to destroy a city has a 1.9% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: 2024yr4; asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; science
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To: grundle
1.9% is surprisingly accurate. Not 2%, not 1.94566777, but 1.9. Was wind speed considered?
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posted on
02/05/2025 8:00:13 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: grundle
Elon, are you going to be ready to handle this in time?
If you can deflect this I would propose that every man, woman and child on earth pay you $100.
Add this to what you already have and $ 1 Trillion beckons.
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posted on
02/05/2025 11:12:15 PM PST
by
CurlyDave
(I helped vote the felon into power.)
To: grundle
Chance? Orbits aren’t up to chance.
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posted on
02/06/2025 11:09:49 AM PST
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Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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