Monday, 3 February 2025

Look Up In 2032

In 2032 Brisbane are hosting the Olympics but they may want to hold off spending million on arena's just yet because Scientists are monitoring a 100mx40m Asteroid that could hit Earth and put a huge crimp in the Opening Ceremony.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed it is closely monitoring an asteroid called 2024 YR4 which they peg the odds at 83-1 that it will smash into our Planet and cause 'severe damage'.
The large space rock is currently 27 million miles away and its path will not cross the Earth's orbit until 22 December 2032 so the silver lining is if you look up and see a rock the size of a football pitch hurtling towards you then you won't have to bother buying Christmas Presents that year .
The warning does come with the caveat that it will be close but not THAT close and will probably bowl straight past us but all the top Space types are meeting in Vienna this month to discuss it and if they are in agreement that 83-1 was way to optimistic, then they will make recommendations to the United Nations that maybe we should consider doing something to deflect it.  
The ESA does admit that their early warning system is designed to flash red lights and scream that we are all gonna die  so they can monitor the trajectory of these things so they say they are not worried just yet but then scare us again by saying how a smaller asteroid, only 60m across, landed in Siberia in 1908 and flattened every tree over 830 square miles.

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