Odds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new high - National | Globalnews.ca
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The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, now has a higher chance of smashing into our home planet in 2032, according to NASA.
    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Coming back to this: You mean to say we’ve got three years to execute a mission to give it a little nudge now, so we don’t have to give it a big nudge in 7 years? (Into earth’s orbit, of course.)

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well, huh. TIL.

      Serves me right for half remembering something and assuming the first search result explains it.