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[deleted] t1_jdo9erh wrote

Reply to comment by insufficientmind in [NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT) by ICumCoffee

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censored_username t1_jdocx9y wrote

>This asteroid is about 100X smaller than the one that killed the dinosaurs

Additional note, it is 100x smaller in linear size, which puts it around the order of a million times lighter than the chicxulub asteroid.

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[deleted] t1_jdob19t wrote

isnt the size of this one comparable to the one that landed in russia a decade or so ago?

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[deleted] t1_jdobd49 wrote

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assassin5 t1_jdopod1 wrote

In which case it would be like dropping a nuke in New York, no biggie.

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binzoma t1_jdord9w wrote

yes, but the probability of it hitting a population centre is VERY low. most of the world is water. most of the remainder is land that is farm/forest/desert/tundra

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daveinpublic t1_jdov5du wrote

I feel like I’m in an echo chamber

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TheRealJuksayer t1_jdoxzq8 wrote

But it is big, but it won't hurt, but it could hurt, but the earth is big...

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hunnerbunner2000 t1_jdpvfvl wrote

yes, but the probability of it hitting a population centre is VERY low. most of the world is water. most of the remainder is land that is farm/forest/desert/tundra

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FQDIS t1_jdp4gt4 wrote

^echo ^chamber… ^echo ^chamber…

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Guses t1_jdonewp wrote

You guys know about Tunguska? It was thought to be only 56-foot-wide (50 m) asteroid. It flattened trees over 830 square miles when it burst in the air. That's flattening an entire area 28 miles by 28 miles. And that's on the lower end of the range for DZ2.

Could easily kill millions of people in an instant.

Kinda scary that there are objects like this that are floating around and that we only notice at the last minute.

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