Das Zerstören von Asteroid 2024 YR4 ist die beste Option, um ihn daran zu hindern, den Mond zu treffen. Es hat eine 4% ige Chance, im Dezember 2032 den Mond zu treffen
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/destroying-asteroid-2024-yr4-is-the-best-option-to-stop-it-from-hitting-the-moon
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I’m still of the opinion that we should do the opposite, debris hitting satellites be damned. Do a DART-style mission and have it hit the moon while observing the whole thing. Then send Artemis astronauts to the new crater a few years later.
Nooo let it hit the Moon. I’d love to observe the impact and the possible massive meteor shower afterwards (and the ISS is probably long gone around then).
That’s absolutely NOT the „best“ option. Nature has endured much, much worse. And the science that would come from this, even a near miss of the moon, would still open doors of knowledge.
The rush to destroy this thing is idiotic, especially if there’s a 96% chance of nothing happening at all. I’ll take the odds on that any day.
If only we could train oil riggers to be astronauts
We’ve got less than 10 years to experiment on asteroid deflection. I’d hate for this to be the first attempt.
Impact of the moon could give great data about subsurface material.
I think I’m still on Team Destroy/Deflect. While I agree there is a great scientific opportunity from an impact, we also need to be proactive about planetary defense if we are to expand our presence to Luna and beyond. Because the first few attempts at warding off asteroids will be failures or partial successes.
You know what, the Moon can go fuck itself. I say it’s time for an “Earth First” policy. I don’t want my tax dollars wasted on a foreign celestial object. MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN!
We don’t have to do anything, but if we decide to do so anyway, I think we should nuke it. The article says a 1MT warhead would be enough to disrupt it, but if we are going to the trouble, I think we should up our game. We should slam a 25 MT warhead into it with the object of completely vaporizing it.
What’s the big problem with it hitting the moon?
As an alternative, how about we nuke the moon instead. Destroy the moon and make 2024 YR4 our new moon.
It misses the moon by 2 meters and uses it as a gravity sling to hit the Earth 😎
I dunno at the rate human civilization seems to be declining I think we should go ahead and just let it hit the moon.
cant you just push it out the way? i thought pushing an asteroid out the way was easier than destroying it?
**Question**: How positive are we that the world governments will work together to accomplish this feat?
At this point, I’m starting to wonder if there’s some way we can maneuver the earth in front of the asteroid to protect the moon.
Spoiler alert: It will not hit the moon in 2032. It just need some more observations to announce it for sure.
„Destroy“
Doesn’t that mean there will simply be a swarm of smaller objects hitting the Moon over a larger area, with some entering unpredictable trajectories that might intersect the Earth?
We need to MAKE this one hit the moon. Fly a redirect mission to bring that 4% to 100%. We get experience and data on moving asteroids around AND we get large-scale impact data. It could be one of the most scientifically significant events of the decade.