Asteroid coming close in October

[Hulsker 1856]

Originally Posted by Cruzincat

https://www.yahoo.com/news/asteroid-...155009565.html

The article says it came close in 2012 as well, but this time it is even closer. They didn't say it would or would not reappear again five years from now. Should we be concerned? I wish they would have said something.

You could have spent less than a minute googling, like I did, and you'd have found out that current data indicates a 1-in-14,000 change of impacting Earth in the next century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_TC4

Don't rely on Yahoo! for scientific information.

Besides that, even if we knew it was going to hit Earth in five years, what would you do? It would not be possible to plot even generally where it would likely fall until the final hours before it did. Also, it's roughly the same size as the one that hit Chelyabinsk in 2013, which broke a lot of windows and caused some minor injuries mostly due to breaking glass. And that's only because it happened to come through the atmosphere near a large city. In other words... big deal.

[Crashj007]

Originally Posted by Hulsker 1856

<>Also, it's roughly the same size as the one that hit Chelyabinsk in 2013, which broke a lot of windows and caused some minor injuries mostly due to breaking glass. And that's only because it happened to come through the atmosphere near a large city. In other words... big deal.

I'm not worried about a Chelyabinsk event, I'm worried about Tunguska sized rocks.
"Actually , I'm not"