floofloof@lemmy.ca to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoOdds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new highglobalnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1238arrow-down1external-linkOdds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new highglobalnews.cafloofloof@lemmy.ca to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square100fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoScott Manley said in his video that it would almost certainly increase right up to a point where it would (probably) drop to 0. Imagine the asteroid position is going to be in a range 1 to 100. Earth will be at position 31 when passes. That’s a 1% chance. Now I tell you that it’s actually a 10 to 90 range ( like they predict the asteroid a bit more precisely). The chance is now 1 in 80 or 1.25% It went up! Now I say I’ve got more info, the number is 30 to 70. The chance is 1/40, 2.5% time to panic, it’s getting worse! Next it’s 40 to 70. That doesn’t include 31. The chance just dropped to 0. So the increase is showing a more accurate prediction still includes hitting earth, but at some point that prediction might show that it will miss.
Scott Manley said in his video that it would almost certainly increase right up to a point where it would (probably) drop to 0.
Imagine the asteroid position is going to be in a range 1 to 100. Earth will be at position 31 when passes. That’s a 1% chance.
Now I tell you that it’s actually a 10 to 90 range ( like they predict the asteroid a bit more precisely).
The chance is now 1 in 80 or 1.25% It went up!
Now I say I’ve got more info, the number is 30 to 70. The chance is 1/40, 2.5% time to panic, it’s getting worse!
Next it’s 40 to 70. That doesn’t include 31. The chance just dropped to 0.
So the increase is showing a more accurate prediction still includes hitting earth, but at some point that prediction might show that it will miss.