threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 19 hours agoDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down13
arrow-up1157arrow-down1external-linkDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comthreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoTechnically the solar system is a multi-body system, and everything nudges everything else, but the mass of the earth is far greater than the mass of the asteroid, to the point that it doesn’t matter.
Technically the solar system is a multi-body system, and everything nudges everything else, but the mass of the earth is far greater than the mass of the asteroid, to the point that it doesn’t matter.