#2023nt1 — Public Fediverse posts
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#Forbes 📆 Jul 16, 2023 The #ESA estimates there could be around a million near-earth #asteroids between 30 and 100 meters wide, and 98.9 percent of them remain undiscovered. New #asteroids ☄️ passing this close by #Earth are discovered every week, however #2023NT1 is among the largest seen in the past year. To get a sense of what a direct hit 💥 from an object this size might do, we have to reach back into history a bit, to the Pleistocene epoch 50,000 years ago, when a slightly smaller #asteroid formed the famed #MeteorCrater in #Arizona https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/07/16/hotel-sized-asteroid-undetected-until-two-days-after-close-pass-by-earth/
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#Forbes 📆 Jul 16, 2023 The #ESA estimates there could be around a million near-earth #asteroids between 30 and 100 meters wide, and 98.9 percent of them remain undiscovered. New #asteroids ☄️ passing this close by #Earth are discovered every week, however #2023NT1 is among the largest seen in the past year. To get a sense of what a direct hit 💥 from an object this size might do, we have to reach back into history a bit, to the Pleistocene epoch 50,000 years ago, when a slightly smaller #asteroid formed the famed #MeteorCrater in #Arizona https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/07/16/hotel-sized-asteroid-undetected-until-two-days-after-close-pass-by-earth/