Posted on 03/01/2022 7:44:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
For a few tense days in January of this year, astronomers were tracking a Near-Earth Object cruising towards Earth with its trajectory showing it hitting the planet in 2023, when it mysteriously changed course. The asteroid dubbed 2022 AE1 was on course to hit Earth on July 4, 2023, with astronomers predicting real damage to a local area.
The asteroid was moving so fast that there was not enough time to attempt deflection and the European Space Agency (ESA) said that, worryingly, the chance of impact appeared to increase based on the first seven days of observations. The first observations were followed by a dramatic week 'in the dark' as the full Moon outshone the potential impactor.
When the Moon moved away, the telescope looked again, only to find the chance of impact was dramatically falling. Since then, it has been confirmed that 2022 AE1 will not impact Earth and has been removed from ESA's risk list.
Astronomers said that several asteroids often appear risky during initial observations, get riskier, and then suddenly become entirely safe. "As is often the case, the overlap with Earth remains even while the risk corridor gets smaller due to further observations and so the risk appears to increase. More often than not, as the hazard zone narrows, the small potential corridor moves off Earth and the risk suddenly drops," ESA said in a statement.
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It was afraid of omicron
Again!?
These aren’t really scientific predictions, but fear porn. I get these “asteroid apocalypse” stories regularly in my inbox and in ads directed at me. Clicks = $$$$
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because of Joe Biden’s secret leadership
Aliens!
Now I'm more worried about the asteroids which they insist won't hit us.
Maybe branDUHn threatened to take it behind the gym.....
“Doesn’t it bother you ... when the scientists are wrong in their predictions? .... but they still say ... “Trust us. And trust the science.”?
Maybe they mean, “Bend over so we can thrust our science”.
I don’t know I think science is too young to start accusing it of torturing statistics or whatever, and this could have been an aberration caused by bending of light who knows.
It’s refreshing that we have a science that is robust enough to figure certain things out and to question and summarize other things but it’s far from exact because it it really is in its infancy compared to what there is to observe.
Read it, study it.
Read it, study it.
I doubt it “mysteriously changed course”.
More like the asteroid was deemed “safe and effective”.
It did not “Move away” and it did not “change course.” There was some gravitational influence that made it happen, and that should be very easy for a scientist to find out. Another asteroid, Earth, the Moon.
Or the initial prediction was wrong.
Or there was sentient life abord and they heard that hillary was going to be giving a speech, and couldn’t get away fast enough.
Musk!
Well, consider that we have never even attempted to deflect an asteroid, and that even if we had everything ready to go for such a mission (we don’t), we would still depend on having the proper orbital launch windows which we cannot control or hurry along.
Our Alien friends moved it for us. They don’t want to lose the human farm where they get there meat.
Discovered January 6, projected to impact July 4. Are you kidding me? Asteroid 2022 AE1 was estimated to be 230 feet wide (70 m) in diameter.
“Doesn’t it bother you ... when the scientists are wrong in their predictions?”
No, scientists are wrong in their predictions all the time. You can’t “do science” without having that happen, and usually happen more often than not.
What bothers me is stuff like lying about the reliability of your predictions, hiding evidence that doesn’t comport with your predictions, using questionable methodology to try to pretend that your predictions are still viable, etc.
If Jupiter was smaller or further away it wouldn't be an effective big brother protector. But if Jupiter was larger or closer to Earth it would probably cause horrible tectonic activity on Earth. That Jupiter is just the right size and just the right distance away IMHO is an example of fine tuning from God's creative hand.
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