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Spike in pageviews

Pageviews are up from ~10 the past few months to ~500 yesterday. I think this was covered in a clickbait article, perhaps this one in IBT, "NASA Detects Planet-Killer Asteroid That Might Hit Earth". ☆ Bri (talk) 19:04, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the asteroid (1998 OR2) is definitely click-bait with 13,296 views on 03 March 2020. Last year peaked at 2,453 views on 16 August 2019. -- Kheider (talk) 16:47, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Here is more clickbait from 16 August 2019. -- Kheider (talk) 14:14, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Contradictory statements

How the Earth minimum orbital intersection distance (0.0154 AU) can be larger than the predicted distance for the 16 April 2079 encounter, 0.0118 AU? Either an error, or the cited MOID is actually a function of time, in which case this should be made clear and the time period to which the current value refers to should be specified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:43B0:4870:E46C:2673:D97B:4ADA (talk) 02:57, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

All orbits change with time as a result of perturbations. 2079 is a long way off so obviously a 2020 MOID can be much different. -- Kheider (talk) 22:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

"Potentially hazardous"?

It would be a good idea to explain to the public (perhaps in a footnote) the implicit contradiction between the statement that the object's trajectory is "well known through the year 2197" - and, specifically, that "the 2020 close approach distance is known with an accuracy of roughly ±105 km" - and its classification as a "potentially hazardous asteroid". If the close approach distance is known to such a degree of accuracy, why is it even classified as "potentially hazardous" (to Earth, I presume)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:EE2:110B:7900:7803:3BC4:DED0:58D1 (talk) 18:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Done. With closest approach only 10 days away the uncertainty is now down to ~±11 km. -- Kheider (talk) 12:54, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Explain something

Please explain on the point ' it will safely pass 16 LD from the Earth's for the non- astronomers like me. please. Thank you--RazorTheDJ (talk) 17:45, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

At the asteroids closest point, it will still be 16 times further than our moon. -- Kheider (talk) 21:49, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

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