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Winning the state’s VaxMillions lottery on two separate days if every eligible adult resident is entered and a new drawing is held every second.īottom line? Janson, an affiliate in computer science, says that if he were a betting man, he would put his money on our being just fine.

Throwing a dart at a dartboard with your eyes closed and hitting a bullseye.

Any four random people sharing a birthday in the same month (the odds of this are 1 in 1,750 exactly).

Flipping a coin and having the first 11 attempts all land heads. Since the meteor hit the Earth from behind, Siraj’s calculations said the meteor was actually traveling at about 37.3 miles per second (60 kilometers per second) relative to the sun.

They compared Bennu’s chances of hitting Earth to the approximate likelihood of:

When the 164-foot (50-meter) asteroid passes by on March 11, 2023, there is roughly a 1 in 500,000 chance of. Janson and Morgane Austern, both assistant professors of statistics. The next asteroid of substantial size to potentially hit Earth is asteroid 2005 ED224. Scientists fine-tune odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth through 2300 with NASA probes help. This begs the question of just how good should we feel about our odds? We put that question to Lucas B. Scientists fine-tune odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth through 2300 with NASA probes help. (In an unrelated development, NASA plans to launch a mission in November to see whether a spacecraft could hit a sizeable space rock and change its trajectory just in case it ever needs to.) The space agency, which has been tracking the building-sized rock since it was discovered in 1999, revised its prediction based on new tracking data.Įven with the small shift in odds, it seems likely we won’t face the kind of scenario featured that in the 1998 science-fiction disaster film “Armageddon” when Stamper, played by Bruce Willis, and his team had to try to blow up a huge asteroid that was on an extinction-making collision course with the Earth. New calculations put the odds at 1 in 1,750, a figure slightly higher than previously thought. 1/5 Asteroid 2005 LW3 The first and largest asteroid of them all, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office has issued an alert against a humongous asteroid named Asteroid 2005 LW3.

Recently NASA updated its forecast of the chances that the asteroid Bennu, one of the two most hazardous known objects in our solar system, will hit Earth in the next 300 years. Even Harry Stamper would probably like these odds.