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An asteroid big enough to destroy a city has a 1.9% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032.
Twitter ^ | 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?


41 posted on 02/05/2025 8:00:13 PM PST by Raycpa
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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.


42 posted on 02/05/2025 11:12:15 PM PST by CurlyDave (I helped vote the felon into power.)
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To: grundle

Chance? Orbits aren’t up to chance.


43 posted on 02/06/2025 11:09:49 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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