Asteroids have the potential to cause general destruction
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Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a asteroid the size of a building To rush in the direction of the earth, in an effort to try to understand if it could strike us. Our best current estimate is that this object, called 2024 years, has a chance of 1 in 43 in 2032, the highest risk of any known asteroid. But what does this number really mean and when should we start to panic?
Astronomers continuously follow thousands of asteroids when they move to our solar system. This information is then gathered at the Minor Planet Center,…
