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There's a 3 in 4 chance an asteroid hitting the earth will hit water, and of the remaining change about 50/50 it hits a desert or ice sheet (Antarctica, Greenla
by ta1243 2y ago
There's a 3 in 4 chance an asteroid hitting the earth will hit water, and of the remaining change about 50/50 it hits a desert or ice sheet (Antarctica, Greenland).
- jonstewart 2y agoHitting an ice sheet might be worst case scenario for global impact.
- pfdietz 2y agoThe stripe where this object could hit is mostly at low latitude.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoSorry could you expand / clarify this comment? What would make this more likely to hit near the tropics?
- adzm 2y agoThe risk corridor calculated here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_risk_corridor.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_risk_corridor.pn...
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoMan if it hit india that'd go from a bad day to catastrophic.