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Re:Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt... by Qem on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:39AM (#42864766)
Waiting. In general the probability increases as more data is gathered, and the error ellipse shrinks with the Earth still inside. Then is suddenly drops to zero in the overwhelming majority of cases, when the Earth finally gets out of this shrinking error ellipse.
Re:Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt... by dguest on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:02AM (#42875879)
The precision (of the observed trajectory) increases. If the probability increased in general we should recalibrate our probability estimates.