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Vital to note: the asteroid was detected by a guy sitting in Hungary a mere three hours prior to impact. NASAs system pulled the reported data and calculated it
by carlsborg 3y ago
Vital to note: the asteroid was detected by a guy sitting in Hungary a mere three hours prior to impact. NASAs system pulled the reported data and calculated its trajectory.
“ The asteroid 2024 BX1 was first observed less than three hours before its impact by Krisztián Sárneczky at Piszkéstető Mountain Station of the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary.”
“(Scout) automatically fetched the new data from that page, deducing the object’s possible trajectory and chances of impacting Earth.”
Equally unsettling - it was about 1 meter in diameter and the fireball was visible from large swathes of north Germany, there are numerous videos.
- M95D 3y agoIs this the state of the art asteroid detection we have?! We're doomed.