Okay guys, let's get the nerds on here to try and prove this wrong and put my mind at ease

cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
> 52768 (1998 OR2) 2020-Apr-29 09:56 ± < 00:01 16.36 | 0.04205 16.36 | 0.04205 8.70 8.69 15.8 1.8 km - 4.1 km
16 lunar distances

what side of the planet will be facing it when it flies by?

here's an interesting one we know of
> 153814 (2001 WN5) 2028-Jun-26 05:23 ± < 00:01 0.65 | 0.00166 0.65 | 0.00166 10.24 10.08 18.3 580 m - 1.3 km

That image is really not to scale at all is it.

>"Relatively close"
On an astronomical scale, "relatively close" is the distance between us and the moon. Stop reading clickbait and learn what an Astronomical Unit is.

Listening to the original video, he's saying that it could potentially fuck with our planet's gravity, magnetic shield, and weather because it may be way more massive than we think.

So it won't hit, but it could do things like potentially set off Yellowstone, or Cascadia.

It's all fun and games until gravity forces rip it in half and then one half is on collision course

The other asteroid I pointed out, 52768 would be in between the Moon and the Earth.

You're so fucking dumb. Just get off this board and get a life. Or kys. No one cares.

6.4 million kilometers at periapsis is hardly "close by".

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Ever heard about the "three body problem"?

It's basically impossible to calculate with 100% accuracy the trajectory of any object that's under the influence of >2 sources of gravity. Comet/astheroid trajectories are always speculative at best and roughly based on past tabulated data, but they are not mathematical projections, they are 100% probabilistic.

fucking based

It depends on how they calculate it's trajectory. If they use dead reckoning and assume the force distribution that has acted on it previously will dictate it's future course their is a possibility of error.
That error could mean it is further away or it lands right on your fucking head. I don't think we as a species are yet aware of every single possible force acting on celestial bodies at every single point in space.

An asteroid in the vicinity of Earth for example will be affected by the gravity of the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, Jupiter and your mom. Difficult to calculate where it will end up.

Hello kike

I'll thank you user
Also, my understanding of the worries not relayed by OP is that if this asteroid/comet begins to form a tail, those small fragments could become slowed by the orbits enough that they begin begin to form an asteroid belt that we would then pass through. What are your thoughts on this? Burn off in atmosphere?

yeah the oceans of cyanide pouring into the earth will be no big deal

it would help if we truly knew what gravity is. we don't even understand its nature, yet mathematical constants for it are integral in calculating acceleration. and on a macro scale we could be completely off. all we can do is make placeholders like dark matter to explain why things don't add up as we anticipated.

Yeah, it's probably fine.

But no seriously, what?

schizpocalypse

user you must elaborate. We cannot accept baseless statements like this user, please tell us what you mean?

>potentially set off Yellowstone

this isn't how this works. impacts don't somehow trigger volcanoes, nor necessarily would the seismic reaction from a large impact. pretty low chance at that. it would have to be so big that the planet's fucked anyway, like 5 mile wide moving 36k mph, and you're like whoa, that's gonna set off yellowstone, and I'm like yeh sure, but nothing on land will live to see it.

It's not going to impact, the gravitational fluctuations would cause it.

oops wrong user

Oh another space thread.

Space isn't real you dumb faggots.

Keep coping. You fell for it.

if the moon isn't doing that every day, how is a minuscule comet going to do it with 1 pass.

Well, we don't know how minuscule it is, or more importantly, what it's mass is.

It may not have any effect on us at all, only time will tell.