6 points
Fingers crossed
10 points
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
24 points
100m across. Dino killer meteor was 10km. Size scales with cube of diameter, so this is about 1/1000000 the size of the dino killer. Even if it hits, we’ll be fine.
25 points
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Multibody gravitational systems are chaotic so it’s impossible to predict them perfectly, far into the future. As it gets closer the modeling will get much more accurate, kind of like a weather forecast, to the point that if it were to hit we’d have a very good idea of where.
We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.”
At a time whwre once in a century / millenia events are happening every year
20 points
