Do you think the world will end on 26/8/2032? Or you just don't really care?

Question

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/437733/The-end-of-the-world-IS-nigh-Huge-asteroid-will-hit-earth-in-2032-claim-astronomers

Answer 1

The chances of it hitting are very low.

And even if it did, it won't end the world. It would cause damage of course, but its not a world-ending event.



I care, but I did my research BEFORE panicking over it.

Answer 2

You don't read very well, do you? The sensational headline claims that the world will end when struck by this "huge" asteroid in 2032, then when you actually read the article (which it seems you did not do!), you learn that the probability of it NOT hitting us is 99.998%, pretty much a sure thing that we will not get hit. Also, as cosmo correctly said, even if the almost impossible happened and we were to get hit, this thing is only about a quarter mile in diameter. For comparison, the asteroid thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is estimated to have been ten miles in diameter. This object, if it does hit on land, would take out a metropolitan area, maybe part of a state, but nowhere near being an extinction level event.



Learn to read the entire story before firing off an ignorant question. The sky is NOT falling, chicken little!

Answer 3

No, not due to 2013 TV135 at any rate.

Latest risk assessment has downgraded the 2032 Virtual Impactor to Torino Scale 0 (zero).

Sigma LOV is now -3.03 (i.e the impact solution is now 3 standard deviations from the nominal).

Formal risk is 3 in one million.

More observations were published on MPEC 2013-V14 so the assessment will be updated again soon (and this will continue to happen as the object will remain observable into 2014)

Nominal closest approach in 2032 (JPL HORIZONS) is 0.41 AU or about 62 million km on July 16 (but that nominal date of closest approach has been shifting quite a bit as more observations have come in)



http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2013tv135.html

http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=2013+TV135

Answer 4

Just because an asteroid hits the earth (which there is only a 0.0016% chance it will) doesn't mean the world will end. Hope that answers your question.

Answer 5

1) It's too small to be "the end of the world".

2) The impact probability on the date in question is actually 1 in 345,000.



>> Or you just don't really care?



Bit of a false dichotomy, eh? Maybe we're scientifically literate and not pants-wetting drama queens.

Answer 6

Let's not start this "end of the world" JUNK again. It was beat to death last year.



It was proven to be all a HOAX then and is still a HOAX or a SCAM Now.

Answer 7

Silly Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling, it was just an acorn, now stay away from Foxy Loxy.

Answer 8

Nonsense. That asteroid is not likely to hit, and if it does it's a city-buster, not a planet-buster.

Answer 9

My world will end on the day I die.