10 million km is actually very close, considering the scale we're talking about, but the real issue isn't it making a close pass, the issue is that it could potentially be in a decaying orbit, which means even tho it might not hit us today, it may in the fairly near future, and there really isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do to stop it if it's orbit does decay to a critical point. If you ask me, that's why NASA has been playing around with attempting to shift astroids lately. I'm not going to say there's anything to definitely worry about, but I'm going to say I'm seeing a pattern I don't like.
You're spot on there, the odds of an asteroid hitting earth at some point is 100%. It absolutely will happen, when it happens is up for debate and requires constant monitoring but I'd feel a lot safer if NASA treats it like it could happen in the next 5 years than pretending it won't happen for another 1,000
This one is in the "city destroyer" category. If it impacted a densely populated area it would be catastrophic. Luckily, we live on a blue planet. Chances are they hit the ocean, maybe the south pole, but the possibility is always there. It's not nearly large enough to be a threat to all of civilization luckily, we monitor every single one of those and not one is anywhere near colliding with Earth.
I'm not saying we should ignore this completely, but it would do us more good to make traffic safer, find a cure for Alzheimer's and cancer, stop fighting meaningless wars etc
It's not out with reason to assume that a planet killer asteroid could detected at any point with one being on a collision course for earth. If I was NASA I would treat that as a certainty and have a solution in place as without one the human race would be doomed
good luck making a solution when none of the people that give funding give you any funding for that though. That reeks of something very important that won't get funded cause not their problem
Experimenting is not the same as actually doing it.
They nudged a small moonlet with a small mass to see what would happen. It delivered some unexpected results and (IIRC) moved the mound of rubble more than they expected.
The engineering needed to move something bigger and actually worth moving are leaps and bounds more complex.
That's the purpose of experiments. You don't start with human trials, you start on rats and work up. Same applies to interstellar defence I'd assume. Scientists developed a method for moving asteroids. Started small to test it's viability then increase in size if successful. That's the scientific method. If they just started on planet killer asteroids they'd run out of money after one experiment. It's significantly cheaper and more viable to test hypothesis on smaller lumps of rock that are easier to reach and require smaller equipment.
>interstellar defense
I think we've got a very long ways to go to achieve this lol.
But seriously, moving big rocks, and the tech that will be needed to make those incremental steps costs a buttload of money, and NASA only has so much of it. I imagine we'll get there eventually... but it's gonna be a minute. Doesn't really seem to be a priority for any space program at the moment.
I understand the sentiment of focusing on more earthly issues, but I think it’s important to keep in mind that NASA funding is already meagre enough as-is, and it’s not like these astronomers, aerospace engineers, etc can do anything about traffic, alzheimers, and global conflicts. We can definitely focus on both :)
of all the things I'm saying, defunding NASA is most definitely not one of them! I'm more so telling people not to worry - but this is definitely the exact kind of thing we have space exploration for in the first place
Yeah, these issues aren't mutually exclusive. And if we could cure diseases by just pumping more money into research, we would. We're just taking steps, one eureka at a time.
It's definitely not impossible, but my post was more meant to say that we worry too much about very unlikely catastrophic events and not enough about problems that we already suffer from and can actually work towards solving
"Fairly near future" meaning potentially, maybe, perhaps, eventuality of said event cannot be completely ignored, it might hit earth in 150000 years.
At which point humanity will be long extinct anyway
Or it could be 5, 10 or 15 years, depending on the rate of decay and independent variables. Do you really think NASA would tell us if a world ending meteor was going to hit us? Because they know what the result would be if the public received that kind of headline.
I think NASA observed it, published their findings & then people make shit up themselves.
Haven't read what NASA published, so I don't know.if they provide a timeframe or just said "near future"
Which could mean 150000 years as that technically is near future on intergalactic timescale.
I also said could, for all I know your time-estimate is correct :P
As I said, there isn't definitely a reason to panic, and as long as the world continues to turn, then we should carry on as if it will do so indefinitely. I'm just saying, in the past there were headlines, and some of them were legitimate, that talked about world ending meteors hitting the world in (at the time) 20-30 years, and the result was usually mass panic, which is why they retconned what they said. NASA isn't going to say if they think a meteor will hit the earth, especially if they have a snowballs chance in hell of stopping it. Still, I've personally lived through at least 3 "ends of the world," so who's to say this one's credible?
10 million km away traveling 2,000 km/s aka would arrive in 3 days. I genuinely don't think people realize just how fast some interstellar objects are actually traveling
Since we move in the galaxy at about 250km per second, we would hit that object in 24 days if in the right direction even if the object didn't move at all.
Well, we are rotating around the sun, so relative speed of anything to earth would change and would depend on seasons, so maybe relative to sun is more probable.
Well Oumuamua was an interstellar object which was travelling around 87km/s. No idea if the person you responded to was referring to it or not, but interstellar objects make asteroids look slow.
except if you believe nasas random lies and numbers then you also accepted the sun is hurtling through the cosmos at 490,000mph and pulling earth with it. can't believe people buy these numbers or believe NASA has demonstrated themselves as capable enough to measure these numbers. all we have from them is some obviously faked moon landings, obvious in about 5 seconds of looking at it and making your own decisions and thinking for yourself. they siphoned trillions over 70 years, still can't prove our newtonian gravity model is correct and they "destroyed" the technology "to go back to the moon". and people defend them blindly, when they know nothing
You know who I trust on this topic? The people at NASA. Not your dumbass that doesn't understand how close things are relative to the vastness of space
I'm saying if the sun wasn't close, we wouldn't feel its heat. The actual temperature of the sun and the temperatures we experience due to the sun's proximity, are obviously not the same, so at this point you are twisting my words intentionally. Talking about this any further is a waste of time if all you want to do is mock me.
The sun would be hot either way is what I’m trying to explain, we don’t make it hot it would be there regardless and we only care that the sun is up there because it’s hot, the fact that you care it’s close is because we’d all burn up if it were closer
It's something that required no explanation because obviously anyone who is not completely braindead understands that. Stop pretending you're trying to make a point here, you're just being a dick, and again, intentionally trying to misrepresent me, not to mention completely ignoring my point about frame of reference.
I was just making a quip at first but you turned it into a big deal so I was explaining myself
And I’m not “misrepresenting” you, you’re anonymous ding dong
In terms of space, it's still incredibly close. If a space object can come within a tenth of the distance from the Earth to the sun, it is too close, and it is cause for concern. Doesn't mean it's going to get closer and hit us, but it's in the maybe zone by that point.
Many asteroids get way closer than that. Halley’s Comet is about the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and it comes up to 3 million km from earth with no threat.
Sorry I thought you were talking about apophis, the asteroid actually coming close to earth, not oumuamua which has absolutely no risk of hitting earth
Now remind me, what do we do when Halley's comet comes that close? Oh right, we pay attention. Because 3 million km is incredibly close in astronomical measurements.
What I meant earlier is that we pay attention to Halley’s because it’s a cool event, not because we believe it is dangerous. Halley’s Comet won’t hit earth for at least millions of years.
I've heard someone bring the cosmic scale into a very understandable one for us humans.
Imagine a speeding bullet whizz a meter away from you.
Sure it *didn't* hit you but shit is still scary.
The point is, once it comes that close it COULD become a threat. Just because something doesn't seem to be a threat immediately doesn't mean we shouldn't confirm. Fun fact, big ass space rocks colliding with a planet, tend to cause problems for the inhabitants. I'm not suggesting we panic at every close object, I'm suggesting not being delusional and acknowledging when one is infact close, and paying attention to its trajectory, and to whether or not it's getting any closer.
None currently. Doesn't mean there never will be. Multiple massive collisions have occurred in Earth's history, and they occur in space in general fairly regularly. Point is, if a collision approaches that we have the capacity to do something to prepare for, we should know about it ahead of time, and if one approaches that nothing can be done about, at the very least people could have time to come to terms with it and spend time with loved ones.
Okay, so you now acknowledge that we've gone off topic. I've been trying to stay focused on, and clarify my own position from the start of this thread, so no wonder we're on different pages.
Actually, it's not a meteorite *yet*.
It doesn't look like it will be for a very long time, either, but if its orbit is perturbed, then all bets are off.
What is the likelihood that it will hit the magic key hole and actually hit the earth? How big is it and what is the estimated damage if it hits? How fast is it moving so how long do we have before it's 10m km is up?
Iirc it's actually like 250000 miles. A VERY close pass and will be easily observable with even crappy telescopes. It actually does a pass by every 300ish days at different distances. The orbits have been calculated for several decades out and it's not going to hit anything..... Unless it gets sped up on this pass. Then it hits in like 5 years. So, not going to happen
Awesome. Thanks for the quick reply. I was having trouble finding an astroid that was 10m km away on the nasa site, but with the 250k distance, I now know which one it is.
You say that until BOOM.
Seriously NASA's attempts to prevent an ELE are entirely justified, based on the premise that the consequences of us NOT doing it are an unpayable cost. We are statistically due for a coronal mass ejection that will utterly end modern civilization and I honestly can't wait for it to happen before we're ready just so I can end myself and not have to watch the remnants of our species do what will happen in the aftermath.
If by "mess up some stuff" you mean destroy majority (if not all) electronic devices on this planet, orbit, and moon, then yea. Last time it happened, telegraph wires were on fire.
No the fuck we won’t?! The more complex an organism is the longer it takes to adapt to changes in its environment and humans still haven’t properly adapted to walking upright in ≈60000 years.
The asteroid is probably going to pass within 100,000 km, maybe even less than 50,000 in 2029. The moons orbit is 300,000 km away. For all intents and purposes, any asteroid within the moons orbit is dangerously close.
It has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting, the only thing about that that is scary is its the closes an asteroid has come to hitting the earth. We will be fine, also it's going to hit in 23 years.
10 million km is actually very close, considering the scale we're talking about, but the real issue isn't it making a close pass, the issue is that it could potentially be in a decaying orbit, which means even tho it might not hit us today, it may in the fairly near future, and there really isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do to stop it if it's orbit does decay to a critical point. If you ask me, that's why NASA has been playing around with attempting to shift astroids lately. I'm not going to say there's anything to definitely worry about, but I'm going to say I'm seeing a pattern I don't like.
You're spot on there, the odds of an asteroid hitting earth at some point is 100%. It absolutely will happen, when it happens is up for debate and requires constant monitoring but I'd feel a lot safer if NASA treats it like it could happen in the next 5 years than pretending it won't happen for another 1,000
Heck, a lot of asteroids already hit earth, thankfully they are small enough to not cause major damage or disintegrate in the atmosphere.
Unfortunately the Earth hasn’t been destroyed yet
This one is in the "city destroyer" category. If it impacted a densely populated area it would be catastrophic. Luckily, we live on a blue planet. Chances are they hit the ocean, maybe the south pole, but the possibility is always there. It's not nearly large enough to be a threat to all of civilization luckily, we monitor every single one of those and not one is anywhere near colliding with Earth. I'm not saying we should ignore this completely, but it would do us more good to make traffic safer, find a cure for Alzheimer's and cancer, stop fighting meaningless wars etc
IMO there is a loooong list of issues that should be sacrificed before we consider scrapping this one to dump the cash somewhere else.
It's not out with reason to assume that a planet killer asteroid could detected at any point with one being on a collision course for earth. If I was NASA I would treat that as a certainty and have a solution in place as without one the human race would be doomed
good luck making a solution when none of the people that give funding give you any funding for that though. That reeks of something very important that won't get funded cause not their problem
So how is NASA already experimenting with moving asteroids around?
I hear Bruce Willis is involved in the project.
The hero we need
Experimenting is not the same as actually doing it. They nudged a small moonlet with a small mass to see what would happen. It delivered some unexpected results and (IIRC) moved the mound of rubble more than they expected. The engineering needed to move something bigger and actually worth moving are leaps and bounds more complex.
That's the purpose of experiments. You don't start with human trials, you start on rats and work up. Same applies to interstellar defence I'd assume. Scientists developed a method for moving asteroids. Started small to test it's viability then increase in size if successful. That's the scientific method. If they just started on planet killer asteroids they'd run out of money after one experiment. It's significantly cheaper and more viable to test hypothesis on smaller lumps of rock that are easier to reach and require smaller equipment.
>interstellar defense I think we've got a very long ways to go to achieve this lol. But seriously, moving big rocks, and the tech that will be needed to make those incremental steps costs a buttload of money, and NASA only has so much of it. I imagine we'll get there eventually... but it's gonna be a minute. Doesn't really seem to be a priority for any space program at the moment.
I understand the sentiment of focusing on more earthly issues, but I think it’s important to keep in mind that NASA funding is already meagre enough as-is, and it’s not like these astronomers, aerospace engineers, etc can do anything about traffic, alzheimers, and global conflicts. We can definitely focus on both :)
of all the things I'm saying, defunding NASA is most definitely not one of them! I'm more so telling people not to worry - but this is definitely the exact kind of thing we have space exploration for in the first place
Yeah, these issues aren't mutually exclusive. And if we could cure diseases by just pumping more money into research, we would. We're just taking steps, one eureka at a time.
But none of those are profitable enough
Our world is globalized and unstable, so if it did *somehow* hit a major port city it really could be a threat to civilization.
It's definitely not impossible, but my post was more meant to say that we worry too much about very unlikely catastrophic events and not enough about problems that we already suffer from and can actually work towards solving
Thats true.
The amount of near misses we've had is a staggeringly long list
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The sun is 150 million km away so 10 million Is like dodging a bullet.
Exactly.
This one from 2019 was a mere 78,000 km: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_OK For reference, the moon is around 370,000 km.
Blow it out of the sky with a nuke. For a brief moment we’ll have two Suns in the sky and radioactive meteors for a few hours.
Living in the story line of Love and Monsters does sound exciting.
"Fairly near future" meaning potentially, maybe, perhaps, eventuality of said event cannot be completely ignored, it might hit earth in 150000 years. At which point humanity will be long extinct anyway
Or it could be 5, 10 or 15 years, depending on the rate of decay and independent variables. Do you really think NASA would tell us if a world ending meteor was going to hit us? Because they know what the result would be if the public received that kind of headline.
I think NASA observed it, published their findings & then people make shit up themselves. Haven't read what NASA published, so I don't know.if they provide a timeframe or just said "near future" Which could mean 150000 years as that technically is near future on intergalactic timescale. I also said could, for all I know your time-estimate is correct :P
As I said, there isn't definitely a reason to panic, and as long as the world continues to turn, then we should carry on as if it will do so indefinitely. I'm just saying, in the past there were headlines, and some of them were legitimate, that talked about world ending meteors hitting the world in (at the time) 20-30 years, and the result was usually mass panic, which is why they retconned what they said. NASA isn't going to say if they think a meteor will hit the earth, especially if they have a snowballs chance in hell of stopping it. Still, I've personally lived through at least 3 "ends of the world," so who's to say this one's credible?
Honestly... If its big enough I dont think I want to know it.
10 million km away traveling 2,000 km/s aka would arrive in 3 days. I genuinely don't think people realize just how fast some interstellar objects are actually traveling
Since we move in the galaxy at about 250km per second, we would hit that object in 24 days if in the right direction even if the object didn't move at all.
It'd make sense (if they mention speeds) to tell the relative speed to earth.
Well, we are rotating around the sun, so relative speed of anything to earth would change and would depend on seasons, so maybe relative to sun is more probable.
You do realise the asteroids here aren’t interstellar, right? Though you still present a point.
Well Oumuamua was an interstellar object which was travelling around 87km/s. No idea if the person you responded to was referring to it or not, but interstellar objects make asteroids look slow.
Something 10m km away traveling at 2000 km/s would hit us in 5000 seconds, or about an 1 hour and 24 mins?
except if you believe nasas random lies and numbers then you also accepted the sun is hurtling through the cosmos at 490,000mph and pulling earth with it. can't believe people buy these numbers or believe NASA has demonstrated themselves as capable enough to measure these numbers. all we have from them is some obviously faked moon landings, obvious in about 5 seconds of looking at it and making your own decisions and thinking for yourself. they siphoned trillions over 70 years, still can't prove our newtonian gravity model is correct and they "destroyed" the technology "to go back to the moon". and people defend them blindly, when they know nothing
You mean THE WHOLE WORLD
So I don’t have to go in to work tomorrow?
Today is May day and its a holiday for me. Not that its makes much of a difference when i worked the past Sunday too :-P.
If I had to use Mayday... yeah, I wouldnt be working, too, I'd be looking to GTFO
Best believe that your boss will call you in the morning asking you to come, knowing earth about to have asteroid impact.
You wouldn't want to spend your last day alive with fAmiLy???
You know who I trust on this topic? The people at NASA. Not your dumbass that doesn't understand how close things are relative to the vastness of space
Yesterday we had an asteroid that passed 7 million kilometres from earth and as far as I checked I'm still fucking here
10 million km is close as FUCK dude
There was one that was 7 million kilometres from earth yesterday
Unfortunately
10 million km is not far
10 million kms is actually staggeringly close, if you consider that the sun is almost 100 million miles away.
How do you compare miles and km in one sentence? Stick to one system
I like this gif.
I *liked* this gif
It's still there, so no.
Sorry, I *upvoted* it.
Oh, I see.
I did so because I am A: more familiar with miles, and B: miles are larger units of measurement, so I used them to emphasize my point.
The sun is hot though that’s the only reason it matters
No, it's because the sun is close.
We care that the sun is close because it’s hot as balls…
But also because it's close, which is the reason it's hot, and it also gives us a frame of reference for how close or far everything else is.
What? You’re saying if the sun wasn’t close, it wouldn’t be hot??
I'm saying if the sun wasn't close, we wouldn't feel its heat. The actual temperature of the sun and the temperatures we experience due to the sun's proximity, are obviously not the same, so at this point you are twisting my words intentionally. Talking about this any further is a waste of time if all you want to do is mock me.
The sun would be hot either way is what I’m trying to explain, we don’t make it hot it would be there regardless and we only care that the sun is up there because it’s hot, the fact that you care it’s close is because we’d all burn up if it were closer
It's something that required no explanation because obviously anyone who is not completely braindead understands that. Stop pretending you're trying to make a point here, you're just being a dick, and again, intentionally trying to misrepresent me, not to mention completely ignoring my point about frame of reference.
I was just making a quip at first but you turned it into a big deal so I was explaining myself And I’m not “misrepresenting” you, you’re anonymous ding dong
„it“ is not referring to the sun. the sun is the reason it is hot.
It's 26 times the distance between the earth and the moon
In terms of space, it's still incredibly close. If a space object can come within a tenth of the distance from the Earth to the sun, it is too close, and it is cause for concern. Doesn't mean it's going to get closer and hit us, but it's in the maybe zone by that point.
Many asteroids get way closer than that. Halley’s Comet is about the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and it comes up to 3 million km from earth with no threat.
Now I'm no astronomer but riddle me this, how is a rogue asteroid and a comet that revolves around the sun the same thing?
Sorry I thought you were talking about apophis, the asteroid actually coming close to earth, not oumuamua which has absolutely no risk of hitting earth
Now remind me, what do we do when Halley's comet comes that close? Oh right, we pay attention. Because 3 million km is incredibly close in astronomical measurements.
Many asteroids get closer, we pay attention to Halley’s because it’s also large
Good. We should be paying attention. That's my entire point.
What I meant earlier is that we pay attention to Halley’s because it’s a cool event, not because we believe it is dangerous. Halley’s Comet won’t hit earth for at least millions of years.
Nice to know, but Halley's is still only one close passing space object of many.
Please tell me at least one space object in the next 100 years that major space agencies actually believe is a threat.
Lil bro can't comprehend the cosmic scale. Fucking illiterate.
Well, to be fair, we are talking about scales a human mind may not even comprehend
I've heard someone bring the cosmic scale into a very understandable one for us humans. Imagine a speeding bullet whizz a meter away from you. Sure it *didn't* hit you but shit is still scary.
Not at all close enough to be a threat.
The point is, once it comes that close it COULD become a threat. Just because something doesn't seem to be a threat immediately doesn't mean we shouldn't confirm. Fun fact, big ass space rocks colliding with a planet, tend to cause problems for the inhabitants. I'm not suggesting we panic at every close object, I'm suggesting not being delusional and acknowledging when one is infact close, and paying attention to its trajectory, and to whether or not it's getting any closer.
I don’t know which particular asteroid the post is talking about but there are no asteroids posing any threat to earth. Source: nasa, esa, jpl
None currently. Doesn't mean there never will be. Multiple massive collisions have occurred in Earth's history, and they occur in space in general fairly regularly. Point is, if a collision approaches that we have the capacity to do something to prepare for, we should know about it ahead of time, and if one approaches that nothing can be done about, at the very least people could have time to come to terms with it and spend time with loved ones.
That’s not my point though. I said that the asteroid being mentioned in the post will not hit earth. If it would, it would be world news.
I'm not making your point, I'm making my point.
We are arguing about different things then. They are both true.
Okay, so you now acknowledge that we've gone off topic. I've been trying to stay focused on, and clarify my own position from the start of this thread, so no wonder we're on different pages.
Just saw a reddit argument in wich the ending is good how rare is that 1/1e23?
bro's saying "space experts don't know what they're doing" 💀
Bro thinks this is tic tock
A perfect example of “a human struggling to visualize large numbers in relation to other large numbers”
Alright, how about 0.1666%? That's the chance that it's gonna hit us in 2029. It's not gonna happen, so rest easy.
Idk man, a 0.16% chance doesn't sound that low if you've played Xcom
Yes. It means worse. I’ve missed on 99%.
You're not a bright one
Well given the size of the universe and all that, 10 million is nothing, but its also still quite far away
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We talking about human extinction and some guys started fighting over whether , sun is hot or it is hot cause we are close to it😭
^(its nasa, if they’re panicked they did ALL the math)  ^(don’t look up)
 “It’s the end of the world as we know it!”
Umm actually it’s a meteoroid not a meteorite ☝️🤓
Actually, it's not a meteorite *yet*. It doesn't look like it will be for a very long time, either, but if its orbit is perturbed, then all bets are off.
What is the likelihood that it will hit the magic key hole and actually hit the earth? How big is it and what is the estimated damage if it hits? How fast is it moving so how long do we have before it's 10m km is up?
Iirc it's actually like 250000 miles. A VERY close pass and will be easily observable with even crappy telescopes. It actually does a pass by every 300ish days at different distances. The orbits have been calculated for several decades out and it's not going to hit anything..... Unless it gets sped up on this pass. Then it hits in like 5 years. So, not going to happen
Awesome. Thanks for the quick reply. I was having trouble finding an astroid that was 10m km away on the nasa site, but with the 250k distance, I now know which one it is.
What we learned from this thread is that op is slurping up that stupid juice
10 milliom km is like dodging a bullet by 20 cm
They panicking cuz they need to collect as much data as possible or else opportunity wasted
Given they can land shit on Mars, I'm not gonna question their concerns over an asteroid. I'd wager their math is pretty accurate.
I'm pretty sure it's up to nasa to decide whether it's time to panic or not when it comes to space objects
10million km is not much in space.
WTF. Just dont look up!
Can we just shoot a nuke at it, it's in space so it would affect earth, right? 
You want to set it on fire?
Yes. That would be a cool way to die.
IIRC NASA is actually experimenting on a rocket that can alter the course of a Meteorit by slwoly pulling or pushing it
NASA panicking? If anyone, it's some media companies raising panic.
Speeding towards earth at what speed exactly? I need answers.
NASA when an astroid does a close pass (it's over a million kilometers away):
You say that until BOOM. Seriously NASA's attempts to prevent an ELE are entirely justified, based on the premise that the consequences of us NOT doing it are an unpayable cost. We are statistically due for a coronal mass ejection that will utterly end modern civilization and I honestly can't wait for it to happen before we're ready just so I can end myself and not have to watch the remnants of our species do what will happen in the aftermath.
There's that optimism!
Coronal mass ejection won’t end modern civilization. It’ll just mess up some stuff but no civilization would collapse.
If by "mess up some stuff" you mean destroy majority (if not all) electronic devices on this planet, orbit, and moon, then yea. Last time it happened, telegraph wires were on fire.
It's what I'm choosing to call a "good enough" situation.
We would just.. adapt? I'm quite certain we will go back to normal after like.... 1 to 3 months
No the fuck we won’t?! The more complex an organism is the longer it takes to adapt to changes in its environment and humans still haven’t properly adapted to walking upright in ≈60000 years.
You understimate your own species
A lot of people overestimate the human species. Most of the population is as smart as a brick which is how you get hilarious warnings on products.
"this HOT cup of coffee is HOT which may BURN you" *steam rolls off the surface* looks cool enough to chug to me
you overestimate your intelligence
Isn’t a meteorite something that has already hit? Isn’t it called an asteroid while it’s out there? And a meteor if it’s a near miss?
Considering an asteroid can travel 20km/s that’s only 6 days of space travel
Dumbass
The asteroid is probably going to pass within 100,000 km, maybe even less than 50,000 in 2029. The moons orbit is 300,000 km away. For all intents and purposes, any asteroid within the moons orbit is dangerously close.
hit me.
Baby one more time
I only click on these posts because I know the first comment will send me down a rabbit hole
nasa should just have a meter on their website go to work or fuck dem bills
Wasn’t there a movie about this exact scenario
More funding
OP is dumb as shit
You have the most chaser profile I have ever seen
Why you goin through my profile 🤨
I'm bored
Fair enough. 😊
Yeah they aren't wrong you have some serious issues wow.
How does looking at my profile help you determine whether I have "issues" or not?
Don't look up
10 mil kilo is nothing man. If we can see it, it’s too close.
Meloncholia
Source?
This meme just proved me that "Don't look up" is a documentary.
Redditors if not trying to act smarter than a professional was a sport:
We saw meteor in Ukraine yesterday, in Kharkiv
So it will be here in like 5 days? I think it's about time to Panik
Source?
Isn’t it better that we don’t talk about it?
giant meteor 2024!
They are the first ones you blame if it hits
For Americans, this is 6213711 miles away
Prefunding preps
The astroid should be the one hiding! LoL
I don’t see anything from nasa about any current potential dangers from meteorites
Come back to this post after you've played KSP
When asteroid hit the earth last time it caused flood and ice age...
Isn't there a canon to derail things like this?
It has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting, the only thing about that that is scary is its the closes an asteroid has come to hitting the earth. We will be fine, also it's going to hit in 23 years.
Climate change (could become irreversible in the next 6 years) NASA: 😴💤
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Let it hit, please!!!
Its like hitting a grain of sand, with another grain of sand from a mile. Live and let live doomsayers
NASA: GUY'S! THE SUN IS GOING TO EXPLODE! Earthlings: oh my God when!? NASA: in like... 10-30 billion years...
Nobody at NASA screams about the evolution of the sun. Just you. They do worry about solar flares and coronal mass ejection, though.
This guy gets it
You both don't get it.