Posted on 03/09/2023 7:50:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
First detected on Feb. 27, the asteroid dubbed 2023 DW is estimated to measure about 165 feet (50 meters) in diameter, or roughly the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool. The asteroid is expected to make a very close approach to Earth on Feb. 14, 2046; as of March 8, the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre(opens in new tab) predicts a 1-in-625 chance of a direct impact, although those odds are being recalculated daily.
"Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future," NASA tweeted. "Orbit analysts will continue to monitor asteroid 2023 DW and update predictions as more data comes in."
A meteor less than half the size of 2023 DW exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, generating a shock wave that damaged thousands of buildings and injured roughly 1,500 people.
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What are the chances of the asteroid hitting Washington, DC, before November, 2024?!?
Everyone needs to live in fear always and forever!!!!!!!
That is pretty much the point of this article.
California, please.
A Valentine’s Day massacre?
Hey!! I’m stuck here!
DC works as a final resting place for 2023 DW. So does Three Gorges Dam. Or the home of Soros while he’s there.
You nailed it.
Reminds me of David letterman and his “hailstones the size of canned hams” comment.
Unfortunately if something that size hits its not gonna be a local event.....we ALL get it 😏
My old man used to say if you want a risk free life don’t get out of bed. And that isn’t 100%.
Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.Rev. 8:8-11.Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
Asteroid strikes are a certainty going forward. Big ones hit with some regularity. Of all the things that do warrant worry, this one isn’t high enough up on our list.
The one that exploded over russia in 2013 was half this size and packed a pretty good punch.
Sleeping together before marriage has greater odds of divorce, but nobody cares. So who cares here. God has the whole world in his hands, we have our souls in ours.
I should write a song...
So we have 23 years to figure out how we can nuke it off its path, should be more than enough time.
A gambler’s delight.
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