NASA reports a "potentially hazardous" asteroid will come close to Earth on February 15, 2020

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https://www.spaceweather.com/ is the goto spot for a relevant list of PHA encounters.
This beast doesn’t even warrant a light red colouring in the list.

Wake me up when the stuff comes closer than the GEO satellites.

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Nostradumbass?
That’s just brilliant, and hysterical. Better than what I’ve been calling the fucking idiot.

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Big Meteor checking the poll numbers for that run next November!

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or over 14 times further than the Moon.

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I imagine that is something Jupiter is more prone to than Earth, given its much greater gravitational pull and surface area.

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Also, it’s in a bad neighborhood.

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The selected image suggests an object with a diameter of many hundreds of km.

But really one six three three seven three twothousandandtwo pee zet thirty-nine is estimated to have a diameter of rougly 0.5 to 1 km.

Taking that discrepancy cubed for volume gives a scare mongering coefficient of nine orders of magnitude. And that’s before accounting for chance-of-impact.

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NASA jerks kept this one quiet eh? Doesn’t fill one with confidence.

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Not really. It has been known about for almost 2 decades. The ones you worry about are the ones that are not detected until the day of close encounter.

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Although there is discussion in the field that the presence of a gas giant reduces the number of impacts on its sister terrestrial planets, the odds of its influence driving a body into the Earth’s path instead of its own is not zero.

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yeah ok NASA. 3.6 MILLION MILES. glad i read through the whole post. was ready to go on a real bender for the next 48 hours.

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Definitely a 9 on the FUD scale, which is a unit used by Clickbaitologists worldwide.

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Thanks, yet another fact to keep me up at night!

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NASA jerks? OK. I assume you’re being facetious.

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Come on, extended winter… I miss the snow!!!

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Maybe that’s why there’s no BB Valentine Gift Guide this year?

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Please, come take some of ours. We’ve got plenty of winter to spare! The windchill was -33°F this morning.

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Now you you’ve gone and done it. It’s not too late, you know.

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earth is ready. please take us.

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Until you account for all the nuclear plants, fuel processing locations and waste dumps vaporized by the meteor. :grimacing:

Edit: Oh, and weapons too. How could I have forgotten about those? :roll_eyes:

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