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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I science podcast I follow already warned last week that the probability would go up at first as they narrow down its trajectory.
They gave the example of a fan closing, as it gets narrow, the earth represents a bigger percentage of the remaining fan. If you keep closing the fan the Earth eventually will fall outside the fan and the percentage drop to zero.

Unless it turns out that it is dead center.

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