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by wiml 480 days ago
Why do you think this?

Every observation narrows the range of possible trajectories. After the initial discovery, a lot of observations were scheduled.

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Not "worrying" in a rational sense (i.e. we should put more thought into the possibility of this collision), but in a human emotional sense ("if NASA engineers can change their minds this quickly, surely we don't know nearly as much as we think, and the universe feels like a scarier place again").