General Earth getting a mini moon at the end of the month

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kvr28

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Hmm, what if it decided to stay


This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5.


Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years, this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home in an asteroid belt trailing our planet and orbiting the sun.


A team of scientists well-versed in the study of so-called "mini-moon events " identified the forthcoming gravitational capture event. They spotted the peculiar dynamic properties of 2024 PT5 as they routinely monitored newly discovered objects for potentially interesting behavior.

www.space.com

Earth will get another moon this month  — but not for long!

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!"
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kvr28

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Uncle Tom Doug said:
It's a shame it's not going to impact earth. We desperately need another mass casualty event.
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Apophis 2029 has entered the chat

www.livescience.com

'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more years

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.
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NotBanjaxo

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Do you even Soup @Soup???

General - Earth to obtain another moon

Earth is set to temporarily obtain another moon on September 29th. The asteroid known as a ‘mini-moon’ is expected to make a single orbit journey around Earth, ending on November 25th. https://physics.uiowa.edu/news/2024/09/gazette-earth-take-mini-moon-through-november
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kvr28

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oh fucking great, just over a 1 in 50 chance in 2032 for asteroid impact


An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from the agency’s initial estimate of 1.2% in late January.


At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.”

The agency is monitoring the asteroid’s orbit and said that the object’s “impact hazard” could be ruled out eventually. But in a blog post about the space rock, the agency said it is “also possible its impact probability will continue to rise” as more details become clear.

www.nbcnews.com

NASA says that, yes, an asteroid buzzing by in 2032 could hit Earth

But — importantly — the chances are still "extremely low," though they have ticked up since the object was first detected.
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kvr28 said:
oh fucking great, just over a 1 in 50 chance in 2032 for asteroid impact


An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from the agency’s initial estimate of 1.2% in late January.


At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.”

The agency is monitoring the asteroid’s orbit and said that the object’s “impact hazard” could be ruled out eventually. But in a blog post about the space rock, the agency said it is “also possible its impact probability will continue to rise” as more details become clear.

www.nbcnews.com

NASA says that, yes, an asteroid buzzing by in 2032 could hit Earth

But — importantly — the chances are still "extremely low," though they have ticked up since the object was first detected.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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I don't know if I'd call that probability tiny.
 
NotBanjaxo

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kvr28 said:
oh fucking great, just over a 1 in 50 chance in 2032 for asteroid impact


An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from the agency’s initial estimate of 1.2% in late January.


At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.”

The agency is monitoring the asteroid’s orbit and said that the object’s “impact hazard” could be ruled out eventually. But in a blog post about the space rock, the agency said it is “also possible its impact probability will continue to rise” as more details become clear.

www.nbcnews.com

NASA says that, yes, an asteroid buzzing by in 2032 could hit Earth

But — importantly — the chances are still "extremely low," though they have ticked up since the object was first detected.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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NotBanjaxo

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kvr28 said:
Damn I love that movie
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It was the worst kind of switch-your-brain-off fun, but entertaining as hell.

Nothing about it makes sense.

The asteroid is the size of Texas, that's basically a planetoid. No way a nuke blows that in half. Even if it did, the way it just splits perfectly in half and both pieces completely miss earth, without any debris hitting the atmosphere, is ludicrous.

Why the hell did they send a bunch of oil drillers with two weeks training as astronauts, one of the most skilled jobs in the world? Why not spend two weeks training astronauts to drill?

Why in the ever living fuck did the rover they send up have a minigun mounted on it???

I could go on. So much stupid. So, so much stupid.

But it was fun!
 
MountainMedic

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NotBanjaxo said:
It was the worst kind of switch-your-brain-off fun, but entertaining as hell.

Nothing about it makes sense.

The asteroid is the size of Texas, that's basically a planetoid. No way a nuke blows that in half. Even if it did, the way it just splits perfectly in half and both pieces completely miss earth, without any debris hitting the atmosphere, is ludicrous.

Why the hell did they send a bunch of oil drillers with two weeks training as astronauts, one of the most skilled jobs in the world? Why not spend two weeks training astronauts to drill?

Why in the ever living fuck did the rover they send up have a minigun mounted on it???

I could go on. So much stupid. So, so much stupid.

But it was fun!
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Hey man, less thinking and more drinking is the rule for these movies!
 
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