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What’s up with the asteroid that is headed towards Earth? Neil DeGrasse Tyson breaks down 2024-YR4, its likelihood of impact, where it would hit, and whether we can deflect it. Plus, astronomer Rick Binzel helps us break down the Torino scale and how worried people should be. Is this going to be like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
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00:00 – What’s Up With the Asteroid?
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Correction: Neil meant to say that, if 2024 YR4 hits Earth, it would do so on Dec. 22nd, 2032—not January.
Will airburst
What if it hits the moon?
this is for some ignorant american people who think scientist do nothing and don’t even realize they live a comfortable life compared to our ancestors because of their discoveries and the consequent technology.
Someone get Bruce Willis on the phone
I hope it does
just say that the Moon is 250,000 miles away from Earth…