Not a regular on this board but I have a question for you nerds. They say this asteroid will "pass closer than our satellites", but there's no way something gets that close to Earth without being pulled-in by gravity and hitting us. What's the science behind it?
If it's fast enough it can scoot past us without much change to its trajectory.
>>17044416Basically in the early 2020s the calculations said it was going to crash into Earth and kill everyone, but they didn't like the results so they did the calculations again and again until they got the current result that it won't. The topic is closed now
>>17044416for the same reason the satellites aren't pulled in and hit the Earth.it's going to fast.
>>17044471I've been fasting since yesterday and I'm still not floating retard
>>17044472That's because Allah's hand holds you firm, my brother. Inshallah
it is being pulled in by Earth's gravity, enough to alter its trajectory slightly but not enough to hit. It's like a small bend in the road and if Earth was larger or the asteroid slower then it would be a sharper turn
>>17044468It's over, isn't it?
>>17044416That's not how gravity works and we have satellites pretty far out.
>>17044416It's not gonna hit us... but I wish it would. I feel like a city getting wiped the fuck off the map is what it would take to finally get countries thinking seriously about spaceflight again instead of the pointless jerking off we've been doing the last 20 years.
>>17044492This thing is bigger than a city buster. It could kill a country quite comfortably, not quite end of the world but it would be a very bad day.
>>17044532Which country do we like least on 4chan?
Velocity
>>17044416>What's the science behind it?Look up "hyperbolic orbit".>>17044468>until they got the current result that it won't. The topic is closed nowImagine if they found that it would hit Tehran? Pretty sure they would close the topic.
>>17044553I mean... do you have to ask?
>>17044416
>>17044416>closer than our satellites"we have those in geosync orbit, they pretty far compared to spacex internet shit which are barely above the atmosphere, which is a thin line of gas anyway>but there's no way something gets that close to Earth without being pulled-in by gravitywhat is perigee
>>17045117gavity does that
>>17044468Oh God.
>>17045118https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/dsq1e1/why_arent_there_any_uneditedstitched_photosvideos/
>>17045118https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/
>>17044468>kill everyone it's too small for that, at most it could wipe out a city
>>17045370how do you wipe out a city without killing everyone?
>>17044468thisstop asking questions. the trust the experts
>>17045382With a tissue?
>>17044553yours
>>17044680is it "oy vey" or "do not redeem"?
>>17045370kek imagine it crashing into dc or moscow or beijing and starting a global nucular exchange
>>17044468I just ran a few clank-u-lations on the possible impact energy and only got in the range of 2-4 teratons; corresponding to a crater up to tens of kilometers wide but far short of an extinction event.If the current trajectory estimates are proven wrong, I think just evacuating around the impact area and likely grounding air traffic for weeks after would be the only necessary measures unless it's hitting some buildings way more expensive than trying to nuke it.>>17045920it could take out a major city if it were indeed really on an Earth impact trajectory, but I think it would be very obvious that the explosion was way too huge to be nuclear.
>>17045933you know the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs also cause a crater only tens of kilometers wide right?
