Space rock now has 2.3% risk of collision – up from 1.3% in December – but danger is likely to fall with more data
  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    It’s too small and too far out for it to matter. It’s 7 years out, low likelihood, and too small to do anything but erase a city. We have civilization-ending threats at home.

    • Echo Dot
      2·
      3 days ago

      It’ll do more than wipe out a city. If it hits in a populated area it’ll take out an entire region, a city in all its surrounding accoutrements + a fair amount of peripheral land.