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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.



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.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-fa...




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