About "Giant Meteor 2020" 👀

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

IGN ✔@IGN

NASA has confirmed that a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid is hurtling towards Earth at an incredible speed. http://bit.ly/2HouNCA



8:31 AM - Feb 13, 2020

Well now...

[dweller]

1. gulp

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[GreenEyedLefty]

2. Awesome!

This could make things interesting and our lives ultimately meaningless.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Trump plans to combat it by attacking it on Twitter.

[Claritie Pixie]

4. Expected to pass within 3.6 million miles.

Not predicting it will hit us but maybe it will hit us and cause a global winter/extinction event.

We really are insignificant in the scope of the universe.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. NASA's saying it's "potentially hazardous"

So, that means 3.6 million miles is close enough of a pass to be hazardous to Earth?

[Claritie Pixie]

14. I guess so in space travel - within a range where it could hit us, depending on unknown variables.

What if its trajectory changes?

And THE question - if it looks like a direct hit, will they even tell us?

[Wednesdays]

16. 3.6 million miles is 15 times more distant than the moon

I'm not about to prepare for doomsday just yet.

[SoCalNative]

5. Perhaps it could take out the White House

then ricochet over to flatten the Senate?

[klook]

6. Damn you, Marco Inaros!

(Expanse reference for the uninitiated).

How's the asteroid doing in the primaries?

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Wow. So this makes the number of earth killers at 5 now? Was 4 before. Is this a newly ...

discovered asteroid? I really didn't want to read the article, I'll wait until something comes up on YouTube on it.

[lame54]

8. Who's its running mate

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Tulsi

[wryter2000]

13. For that

You get yet another heart.

[Dennis Donovan]

19. It was too easy

[Hela]

11. 3.6 million mile miss. n/m

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. We still have time ...

Let's explode some heads before it arrives:

[democratisphere]

15. The Universe manages itself.

No humans required.

[5X]

17. Bogus, the real fake news. n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

18. Depends if you take IGN (a gamers mag) seriously

I posted it because of the Giant Meteor 2020 meme.

I do see 2 other references to the same story, but both sources are sensational (IBT and express.uk). You may be right...

[nykym]

20. tRump says those things go away when the

weather gets warmer in April.

[defacto7]

21. There are 2019 potentially hazerdous space rocks to date.

Those are the real stats.

A PHA is a space rock larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet

There are new ones detected regularly and there are ones we can't detect because they could come from around the sun out of our view while passing through the solar system. Those happen pretty often.

[blugbox]

22. Why would a gaming site be reporting breaking news??

[Dennis Donovan]

23. Why not?

It's a gaming site. Pretty-much the sky's the limit.

On a related note, GTA 5's "Meteor mode" is a blast!

[Demovictory9]

24. wow