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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

It's not big enough to fix anything. If it hits, it won't hit America or Europe

It's in the big nuke scale of energy, enough to do a lot of damage to a small area. Were it to hit a city, the city would need a lot of rebuilding. Were it to hit, few people would be in danger as we will have years of warning. The only people in the impact area would be "storm chasers" travelling to see the impact

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