NASA has increased the chances that the city-killing asteroid will again hit the earth.
The space agency now predicts that there is a one-on-32 or 3.1 percent, the chance that the Asteroid 2024 JR4 will hit our planet on December 22, 2032.
After the news, social media started while NASA's predictions feared for an imminent disaster.
The similarities with the plot of the SCI-Fi Blockbuster Armageddon of 1998 were simply too big for some cinema fans to ignore.
In the film, Bruce Willis plays the space as the leader of a deep core drillers crew to blow up an asteroid the size of Texas.
With a deadly Rock space that now beat the planet, fans made jokes that the 69-year-old actor might have to repeat his role in real life.
On X a commentator brutally asked: “Where is Bruce Willis if you need him?”
Apart from all the jokes, however, scientists say: 'We may not be able to stop 2024 JR4' to touch the earth – even with a deflection mission.
While NASA increases the chances that the Asteroid 2024 JR4 will hit the earth to one in 32 in 2032, social media has been thrown into the fears of a deadly impact (stock image)
On X, cinema fans missed the similarities with the plot of the Blockbuster Armageddon from 1998, staring Bruce Willis
Commentators made jokes that Bruce Willis might be the only person who is able to save the earth from a deadly asteroid
Since the discovery in December last year, the impact chance of the city murderer Asteroid has increased steadily.
In January 2024, JR4 led to serious concern among the space agencies of the world when it became the only large asteroid with a chance of more than one percent of the impact.
Since then, the probability of the asteroid that touches the earth has tripled to 3.1 percent, an increase in the earlier estimate of 0.5 percent.
Although it may not be the size of Texas such as the asteroid in Armageddon, with an estimated diameter of 55 meters (180 ft) 2024 JR4 could still cause serious damage.
NASA estimates that the impact of the asteroid would release an explosion equal to 7.8 Megatones TNT – more than 500 times larger than the atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima.
If it hit the earth, the current predictions of the asteroid would place the 'risk corridor' in which it could land more than eight out of 100 most populated cities in the world.
This makes 2024 JR4 by far the most dangerous asteroid in space and has expressed concern about the real possibility of a deadly impact.
Although the asteroid would not be a 'planet murderer', social media commentators jumped quickly to propose a doom scenario.
In the film Armageddon (photo), Bruce Willis shines as leader of a team of deep core drillers who are sent to an asteroid the size of Texas to blow it up and save the earth
A commentator joked that it was now time to get 'Bruce Willis on the line'
Another commentator joke early if it was time to start panicking
One commentator on x wrote: 'Uh oh. Sodom and Gomorra is one thing? '
Another asked, “Can we start panicking?”
Faced with an approaching asteroid, many commentators suggested that there was only one person to call.
“Did anyone talk to Bruce Willis?” asked a commentator.
Another broken down in: “This is getting closer, increasingly and more likely – and Bruce Willis is out of use.”
One commentator added: “Send Bruce Willis better with a drilling team.”
The reaction to social media also caused a panic for a few fans who were surprised to see the name of the actor suddenly trending on X.
A user on social media wrote on X: 'Bruce Willis Trending I was like no! Then I found out that it is just an asteroid who will hit the earth in 2032, not Biggie Bruce is still alive '.
With the chances that the asteroid now gets the earth higher than ever, some commentators joked that the Armageddon plot could serve as a guide to protect the planet
A commentator joked that the only thing that was needed was an 'elite team of offshore oilbrillers', just like in the film Armageddon
A user on social media shared how relieved they were to discover that Bruce Willis was still alive after seeing his name Trending on social media
In the meantime, a few pessimistic users of social media seemed to be embracing their potential destruction.
“Just sit all,” wrote a reporter commentator.
Another added: “I can think of worse ways.”
Unlike in the Movie Armageddon, a real plan to declare 2024 JR4, no crew of drilling machines and a nuclear bomb.
Instead, the most likely option would be to use a 'kinetic impactor' – essentially the rams of the asteroid with a spacecraft to push it off course.
In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) mission showed that this was possible by having a satellite crash in the asteroid Dimorfos.
By hitting the spacecraft of 570 kg in the rock with 14,000 miles per hour (22,530 km / h), NASA was able to change the job of the massive asteroid.
If 2024 JR4 passes a certain risk threshold, the space agencies of the earth can send a similar mission to adjust his job so that the asteroid passes at a safe distance.
Unlike the film Armageddon, a real mission to protect the earth against the asteroid would not use exercises and a nuclear leg. Instead, scientists would fire a satellite in the 2024 side of JR4 to bend his course somewhat
However, some scientists have wondered whether a kinetic impactor could save the earth from 2024 JR4.
In a hair -raising post on X, Dr. Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist and author based in London, that 'we may not be able to stop with 2024 JR4' to hit the earth, even with a deflection mission.
Dr. Andrews points out that we 'have less than eight years old to possibly deal with it'.
“You need 10 years or more to build, plan and execute an asteroid bending mission,” he said.
Similarly, Dr. says Andrews that 2024 JR4 can be a separate rubble stack that is held together by gravity instead of a single fixed monolith.
If that were the case, an impact mission could eject a huge cloud of rubble that could rain over a larger area of ​​the earth.
However, NASA studies show that if 2024 -JR4 is a rubble post, this would improve the chances of a deflection mission.
Dimorphos, the asteroid moved in the dart mission, was also a mess and it was the plume of outshore material that helped push it off the course.
2024 JR4 (depicted) is so far from the earth that most telescopes cannot see it and will disappear past the view in April. Before that time, astronomers must collect as much information as possible about the asteroid to plan when they return in 2028
On X, Dr. Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist and author in London, that 'we may not be able to stop 2024 JR4' to hit the earth, even with a deflection mission
Just like an air beam that flows from a balloon, the balloon will move the balloon, the emitted material drives the asteroid out of the way.
Although the chances of an impact have increased, astronomers currently claim that there is no reason to worry about the asteroid.
Dr. Shyam Balaji, researcher in the physics of Astroparticle and Kosmology at King's College London, said MailOnline: 'As more observations improve our understanding of the asteroid, impact opportunities usually decrease and trend often to zero.
'This happens because initial calculations often have large error beams. As the data improves, they reach it and most objects are ultimately determined to completely miss the earth. '
Similarly, Daniel Bamberger, founder of Northholt Branch Observatories who has observed 2024 JR4, said MailOnline: 'The chance that it will fall to zero is still about 97 percent.
“How long it takes to get there, and how far the impact chance will rise for it is impossible to say.”
