Earth set for asteroid ‘close call’

The 40m asteroid has had its course and speed tracked. The resulting odds of it hitting Earth come back as 7000-1.Which means that our knowledge of its trajectory has enough margin for error to encompass a possible — if improbable — collision.It isn’t a lot.

It’s estimated to be about 40m big. And it seems to be travelling at about 12.3 meters per second. At that size, it’s about double that which caused the Chelyabinsk explosion over Russia, injuring 1500 people. “In most cases, the size presented in the table is estimated indirectly from the absolute magnitude, and flagged with an asterisk to denote its large uncertainty,” the ESA’s page warns. “When a better measurement is available in the literature, it replaces the estimated value.”

The highest probability puts the asteroid as passing Earth at some 6.8 million kilometres distance — that's many times further out than the Moon.That warns us of large asteroids with a more likely chance of hitting us.But NASA, the ESA and other agencies are busily preparing to counter an unexpected threat.

But the space agencies will give it another go in a few years time. This time they’ll try to save Europe.The new space agency will focus on strengthening competencies and growing capabilities making Australia less reliant on other countries for communication.

Just end it. We fucked it up. Let the insects rise up. It’s their time.

Let’s hope it hits. I am hopeful life somewhere else in the universe managed to bypass the Woke Progressive left

I've been hoping that a medium sizes space rock would intercept Mar-a-Lago some weekend when realDonaldTrump is entertaining all of his Russian friends ! 🙄😡

Aka Zero.

Finally some good news

Those odds are better then my multi atm.

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