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See this discussion on the Minor Planet Mailing List
https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/40160
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and the attached Close Approach Fact Sheet from ESA
Read the facts about this NEO before ‘journalists’ go into hyperbolic warp drive about Doomsday scenarios…
Alex.
The madness has already begun. Stories written by journos who don’t really understand orbital dynamics and probability and headlines attached by sub-eds to maximise click-through.
Apparently, if you live on the Moon, you should now be very afraid:
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-heading-earth-2024-yr4-moon-china-b2696593.html
This is at the less sensational end of the spectrum. Google will bring up others.
This is all based on some reasonable statements from David Rankin that have been mildly sensationalised in New Scientist and then got the full treatment in the “popular” media.
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