A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "very small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with the moment of potential impact occurring on Valentine's Day 2046, according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. #CNN #News
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We’re all upset it’s not likely to kill us 😅
2023 Y’ALL!!
wait till 2025
“Call it 70% and let’s just move on.”
Don’t look up!
2000 square kilometers…..i love how casual he is about that number haha.
Is he talking about what will be vaporized?
@Lanyard Gates No he just said that in 1918 a similar asteroid hit and it knocked down trees within 2000 square kilometers.
@Lanyard GatesNo, about doing the labour of all the lumbermen on the planet and then some. That’s what happened in Tunguska. But that was likely a comet that itself got vaporized in the atmosphere and created a blast that cut down such a vast area of trees. The close to 0 Kelvin “degrees” turning to super hot steam in an instant. To our knowledge it was a totally unpopulated area at that time. And researchers didn’t access the area until many many years later. But there was no impact crater found. Rather the center of the blast could be located due to how the trees had fallen.
An asteroid would hit the ground—or more likely the sea—and create some other kind of damage.
@Lanyard Gates yes, but only one big city, like NYC or Moscow. lets hope it will be second one.
@tafdiz Dallas
Only an alien would say “It makes Earthlings a little worried” Lol
Holy crap, that’s still almost half a million acres of damage.
Its almost half fantasy too
Far more if it lands in the ocean. Think of the waves that would kick up.
@Vanessa Lynn Tsunamis..
@inside outside Yeah, it could end up being nothing.
@Lanyard Gates its always nothing just look back at every scare hoax
Been saying “Something wicked this way comes” They know it, just not telling yet
You know geopolitics on earth sucks when the threat of an asteroid is a sense of normalcy and major relief.
Very optimistic to think that we’re not going to destroy ourselves before then.
@Meerkat ADV How many of those years have we had nukes? exactly.
@Tyler Scudder 78, exactly
A better bet than the asteroid anyway
@Meerkat ADV 78+ years compared to 3000?
Just FYI, the asteroid prominently shown in the clip is Bennu, visited by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
I was about to say I seen this asteroid befor
Could a been a cosmic booger and it would still be a cool close-up!
Just make sure there are not smaller Asteroids hiding behind it, which you didn’t do on February 15, 2013 when one hit Russia and multiple people were injured!
Bruce Willis better have his crew on standby
Poor Bruce. Great actor!
excellent reporting. compliments on the knowleable questions and the nonsensationalist approach to reporting science news.
I won’t stick around that long but good luck guys!
Finally a good news story! 👏👏👏
Lol remember when the US didn’t want China at the international space station? Now China’s space program is more advanced than the US, this only goes to show that jealousy never works. Good over evil ❤️.
.02% chance of being hit and plenty of time to do something about it. I agree with you that this is a good news story for once. NASA should look into doing something about this.
@Xabiso mbilini “Now China’s space program is more advanced than the US” – Okay WUMAO!
Whatever you say, whatever you say…
IF this one really does hit our planet, since it’s on Valentine’s Day can we ame it The Widowmaker
I remember back in the 90s that it was supposed to be in the late 2020s.
If it is determined that this asteroid will definitely hit Earth I hope they can predict exactly where. If it is an area with a warm climate and nice beach, and I’m still around ( I’ll be 84) I will buy up some bargain realestate, take my deck chair, box of beer and a bag of weed and go enjoy the spectacle.
If it hit earth there has been estimate that if it were to then it would probably hit somewhere between the Indian Ocean the east coast or the middle of the us
OP has the right attitude 😎👍
If it happens, I want it to land right on top of me. I don’t want to live in a dystopian hellscape with possible cannibals.
This sounds like a job for space force! Up up and away
Let’s hope humanity survives long enough to see this asteroid hit us.