Guses

Guses t1_jdonwwo wrote

Reply to comment by Rhaedas 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

>There is still no known threat

Known being the key word. We didn't know about this thing until it was on top of us.

Risks are low but the outcome could be really really bad.

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Guses t1_jdonewp wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

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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