[dp0622]

1 out of 7000 is very very small but not as small as I thought it was gonna be.

What would happen if a 40 meter asteroid hit earth?

[o-n-money]

7000 to 1 that it will hit earth, but we still play the lottery.

[Reno89519]

Steer it to Mecca.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What is the volume of a football field? Zero.

Can’t be much of a threat.

[DouglasKC]

ESA says this particular asteroid has a 1 in 7,299 chance of hitting us. You're more likely to get killed by fireworks, which is a 1 in 340,733 chance.

If that's not a typo then we're much more likely to be hit by this asteroid then killed by fireworks.

[Fedora]

I wasn’t sweating it before, but since it’s CNN telling me not to, now I’m worried. . .

[plain talk]

“ESA says this particular asteroid has a 1 in 7,299 chance of hitting us. You’re more likely to get killed by fireworks, which is a 1 in 340,733 chance.”

Huh? 1 in 7,299 is a higher probability than 1 in 340,733. Something is not right here.

[null and void]

The object is roughly 40 meters in diameter, according to the ESA. A football field is 48.5 meters wide and 109 meters long.

109 meters long? Must be a Canadian football field, eh?

Or they multiplied the width in yards by 0.9144 to get meters (close, but they still got it wrong) and divided the length in yards by 0.9144 to really screw up the length.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[C210N]

For the record here, this object in lunar distances, is expected to be 9x further away than the moon. At its closest.

[LucyT]

[BuffaloJack]

It won’t be a problem until about September 9.
A 40m ball with a density of 2 and a speed of 40kps has an energy equivalent of about 13 megatons of TNT. And then there’s a 70% chance it will hit in the ocean. We’ve done bigger H-bomb tests that this.