Posted on 02/02/2025 4:35:31 PM PST by Libloather
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than an atomic bomb has triggered global space agency alarms.
The odds that the space rock dubbed Y4, which is nearly the size of a football field at between 130 and 300 feet wide, could hit Earth is now too close to ignore, they warn.
“If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week.
The asteroid was first observed on December 27, 2024, from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
The assessment or risk continued to escalate through January 29 — that’s when the International Asteroid Warning Network released a memo on Y4’s threat.
Its sighting prompted a response from the US defenses at NASA. “You get observations, they drop off again. This one looked like it had the potential to stick around,” Kelly Fast, acting planetary defense officer at NASA told AFP.
The likelihood of impact now stands at 1.6%, moving at a speed that would meet Earth by December 22, 2032.
Potential crash sites include the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia, per the IAWN memo.
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And in one fell swoop anthropomorphic global climate change was moot.
Can I vote for the Arabian Sea?
You read that in a book somewhere. Don’t deny it.
It might be a trans-DEI meteor.
Duly noted, on my list of concerns for 2032. What a party New Year’s Eve 2033 will be, if we make it!
In the mean time...5.93 years left, according to the climate psychos.
I tried to tell everybody that sea level rise was a real threat (OK, so I left out that tiny little detail about a meteor).
There’s a good chance it will fall within 50 miles of Phoenix, AZ /old reference
How’s the asteroid Apophis doing that might hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029?
Well, if they’ve determined potential crash sites, with a 1.6% chance of impact, than they must have a ballpark idea of how close it’s actually going to get….
I will be 102 when it would hit, it would be ironic if I lived that long just to get crushed by a space rock.
2032?
no worries, we’ll all be dead from climate change by then
Yeah, and dumping all that kinetic energy will boil a third of the sea.
Something to plan for...
Perhaps we’re closer to the end, more than people think. God will throw fire down from the sky.
So basically, somewhere on Earth
And the meteorite’s name is Wormwood.
Brilliant point
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