Re: "Rising Odds Asteroid That Briefly Threatened Earth Will Hit Moon"

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 07:56:54 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 4/3/2025 10:56 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snippo Giant Space Rock might hit Moon>

"After the Webb telescope turned its powerful gaze towards the asteroid
last month, the chance of a Moon shot is now at 3.8 percent, NASA said."
 
We are all going to die.
 

Eventually, yes, but not because of the creation of a new crater on the
moon.

This article
<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moon-grand-canyons-lunar-rocks>
might be relevant, if the impact of the asteroid in question would
produce enegergies less than or greater than "130 times that of the
global inventory of nuclear weapons". Just as providing a sense of
scale to the possible results.

But it still only a 4% chance of a hit. That's a 96% chance of a miss,
after all.

Note: I signed out while finding this, but it should be generally
available. If not, the point of the article is that it took only 10
minutes to create two canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon by tossing
rocks around.
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