There’s an asteroid called 2024 YR₄ that might hit earth some time in 2032.

The odds of the event are frequently changing though. So if you don’t want to have to follow the news-cycle about it, you can see the odds by visiting arewedoomedyet.org.

Via Matt Webb, who has a very good summary on the asteroid.

Something I learnt from the 2024 YR₄ Wikipedia page is that asteroids have an ‘eccentricity’ rating. This one is 0.6616 eccentric. Whatever that means.

There’s some things that dominate the public psyche during a certain period and define a year/decade. But also are somehow forgotten a few years later. It’s not until someone mentions it that you go “oh yeah, there was lots of talk about 2012 being the end of the world. I forgot about that.” I suspect this asteroid will be one of those.