So in about 8 years there’s a 1% chance that an asteroid will hit earth. OK, but how do they come up with the idea it will hit a major city in the US such as Denver or NYC?
Have they calculated the exact trajectory of the object relative to what part of the earth will be in that path at that exact minute? (keeping in mind the earth is both rotating around the sun and spinning at the same time)
IMO this is climate change grade science at work creating fear. The so called scientists live in their big city democrat bubble and only worry about a rat infested metropolis. If they knew for fact it would hit Rapid City, SD they could care less about those people and worry about the dust fallout drifting towards rat cities.
Celestial mechanics can do some pretty nifty computations.