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AN ASTEROID WHICH had a near miss (in space terms) with earth two weeks ago is unlikely to hit earth when it makes a return visit in 2032.
NASA says that the asteroid, which came within 4.2 million miles of earth on 8 October, has a one in 63,000 chance of hitting the planet when it returns.
Named 2013 TV135, the asteroid is estimated to be around 400 metres in diameter.
It was discovered nearly a month after it came within 4.2 million miles of Earth.
NASA Near-Earth Object program manager Donald Yeomans said as astronomers observe and track it better, they will likely calculate that it has no chance of hitting Earth when it returns on 26 August 2032.
Although big, the asteroid is considerably smaller than the type that caused the dinosaur extinction.
NASA posted a “reality check” about the asteroid in response to claims by Ukrainian astronomers, who had warned that a collision could happen.
“To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 percent,” said Yeomans.
“This is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future.”
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For those on trackers….welcome to the level of interest rates that the rest of us have been paying for the last 15 years.
@Cable Stayed: i care what i pay, not what you pay
@Cable Stayed: I’m curious, why didn’t you take a tracker 15 years ago?
@cars: because he was the lad on the bus who didn’t know what a tracker mortgage was…..
Is this an ad or advice?
They should expect the banks they kindly bailed out to absorb it.
i had less than 5 yrs on my variable rate fixed it for 3 yrs got a lower rate than i was actually paying . Happy Days
Fixed my tracker for 7 years after the first rate rise. In the famous words of Yazz… the only way is up baby
@Fi Wyse: what rate did you fix at
@shuttleJohn: 3% for 7 years.
My tracker wasn’t great 2.25% due to a tracker portability mortgage a year previously where I acquired an extra 1% for the luxury of it. 15 years left and €135k owing so felt like the right thing to do.
Just don’t pay the mortgage like so many in this country. No bank or court can touch you.
Mortgage is a long game my tracker has served me well. I’m willing to hold out. knee jerk is exactly what the banks want us to do before it crashes again. Look at the scaremongering that went on with the energy now we are all fixed to those prices for the next 18 months. Even though the cost of production has more than halved since winter.
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