Asteroid Headed Toward Earth?

[Helix]

I just looked. They now claim only a 0.004% chance, if this blog is correct:

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future. When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small, but notable chance of impacting our planet in 2032. As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to calculate more precise models of the asteroid’s trajectory and now have updated its impact probability on Dec. 22, 2032 to only 0.004% and found there is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet for the next century. The latest observations have further reduced the uncertainty of its future trajectory, and the range of possible locations the asteroid could be on Dec. 22, 2032, has moved farther away from the Earth.​

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There still remains a very small chance for asteroid 2024 YR4 to impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. That probability is currently 1.7%​

Planetary Defense Archives - NASA Science

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Well, that's good news. I definitely wasn't hoping it would take out a city. I would consider it a success if no huge space rocks hit the earth during my lifetime or the lifetime of my kids.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Well, that's good news. I definitely wasn't hoping it would take out a city. I would consider it a success if no huge space rocks hit the earth during my lifetime or the lifetime of my kids.

It would most certainly make the era interesting. On the positive aspect, maybe the media would become more down to earth, and stop all the lying.