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leke
5 months ago
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Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
Yep, it could be that one day you go to work and your town gets destroyed before you manage to get home and hug your family goodbye.
exitb
5 months ago
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According to NASA [1], asteroid needs to be larger than 25 meters to cause localized damage. It’d need to be larger than 1-2km to cause globally observable consequences.
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https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-fa...
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