Tuesday, February 04, 2025

UN Planetary Defence Slightly Worried

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A 1.3% chance of hitting Earth according to this BBC article. But Earth should really be called "Water", because when viewed from the Pacific side, there's little land to be seen other than New Zealand and Australia. So even if it hits Earth, there's a high probability of it ending up in the ocean, just like spacecraft that are decommissioned and re-enter Earth's atmosphere. Even if the odds of it hitting our planet increase, and something has to be done about it, deflection technology has been proven to work. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART spacecraft, launched in 2021, collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, nudging it and adjusting its orbit.