I might start to worry if astronomers start talking too much about “imminent impactors”…

Updated paper at the arxiv:

Monitoring near-Earth-object discoveries for imminent impactors

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The main societal benefit of monitoring for imminent impactors is that it allows for a warning to be sent out in case of an immiment [sic] impact which can no longer be prevented.

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Okay… but what are you going to do about an imminent impactor?