Three Questions, February 22, 2025

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

It was the first day this year that truly felt like spring, so the day was the most beautiful thing I encountered, sunny, warm and lots of flowers in bloom.

What did I learn today?

Asteroid near misses with Earth are not a rare thing, but YR4 is getting big press as it now has a calculated risk of 3% of hitting us. This is the highest ever rated percent chance of hitting Earth. It’s a decent sized asteroid, what they call a city killer. What I learned today, is that it also has a 1% chance of hitting the moon instead of Earth, that’s just nuts. Eight years and lots of observations will absolutely change those odds, but very interesting.

What made me happy today?

Today I got a call from an old friend I haven’t spoken to in some time, a very happy conversation.