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It was a small asteroid, but definitely big enough to cause some real wreckage. If it landed in the ocean, there would have been a tsunami. :x But yeah, it's not going to end the human race or anything like that, lol.
We were this close to facing an asteroid hitting our beloved planet screwing us all.
Ew... The last thing I want to do is be screwed by an asteroid.

.... so does this mean that similar things will happen in the future?
No. Its just one asteroid. It's not like asteroids travel in packs or something.

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Posted December 9th, 2022
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Yeaaah.. I was stuck in a hospital all day, and didn't even know this happened until late that night. Someone told me over MSN, and I laughed.. >_>; Just because I couldn't believe something like that happened, and my family had no clue.


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It was a small asteroid, but definitely big enough to cause some real wreckage. If it landed in the ocean, there would have been a tsunami. :x But yeah, it's not going to end the human race or anything like that, lol. Ew... The last thing I want to do is be screwed by an asteroid.

No. Its just one asteroid. It's not like asteroids travel in packs or something.

Omg I was literally LOLing at these comments I dont know why but they struck me as very very funny!
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Wow, yeah, I think I heard of this from one of my friends also. Its kinda scary to think about what a close call this was, if this story is accurate.
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No. Its just one asteroid. It's not like asteroids travel in packs or something.
Well, the asteroid could always come back..... or a random asteroid could come by and say hello to our blue planet.
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Posted October 20th, 2010
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"It was small—but had it hit, the space rock classified as '2009 DD45' could have created the same kind of destruction as a small nuclear device."

"Not only wasn’t it detected early—but it passed with-in the moon’s orbit—at 40,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. That height is just about twice the altitude of most communications satellites—and a real near-miss by astronomical standards."

It's not a lifeform-killing asteroid but it could
do quite some damage. :cer_blankstare:

No i head about this on sky news, it happened but something else to note uis that I heard a bigger one is coming soon and there going to need no knock it off course
You may be thinking of Apophis...

Apophis will come close by Earth in 2027 and MAY hit what's known as a 'Gravitational Keyhole'. If it does, that COULD alter it's orbit in such a way as to create an impact in 2039. However, even in the unlikely event that it does hit a Keyhole, that is just as likely to alter it's orbit further away in it's 2039 pass.

Only a 1 in 45,000 chance of the end. You're more likely to be killed in a road accident in the next few months. Here's what NASA say: "Using criteria developed in this research, new measurements possible in 2013 (if not 2011) will likely confirm that in 2036 Apophis will quietly pass more than 49 million km (30.5 million miles; 0.32 AU) from Earth on Easter Sunday of that year (April 13)".

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It really is not that big of a deal. If it had crashed into New York, or Shanghai, or some other city, then sure, a lot of people in those areas might die but the entire human population would be pretty much in tact and most people would never know what had happened.

Think about it: Cities make up only a tiny fraction of the surface area of the Earth, the rest is unpopulated land or the ocean. And a 30-50 meter object is not going to hurt anybody if it lands in one of those areas, which is the great majority of the surface area of the Earth.

So we did not "almost" get astroided.

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This was a very close call astronomically, 40,000 miles is very close in space. Had this rock hit the Earth it would of had the explosive power equivalent to the asteroid that hit Tunguska in 1908. That asteroid had the explosive power of about ten to fifteen megatons of TNT. This is equivalent to the blast from the Castle Bravo nuclear weapon. Even if it had exploded over the ocean, it would caused large tsunamis.
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When something hits the earth, call me.
Technically, the Earth is always being bombarded by stuff, whether it be subatomic particles or otherwise :P
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Oh my, I heard about that. We just nearly become the new extinct species, huh?

But wow. I'm surprised there wasn't any forewarnings or at least anything on the news saying that an asteroid was coming our way.

I guess Nasa needs to cut down on the coffee breaks.

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Posted November 7th, 2022
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That is a pretty small article. Is it a reliable source?
All I have to say is this:

If another astroid comes that close, I dont know what our chances are. People say that the world is gonna end in 2012, this astroid. I'm really scared now...
he did it, not me.