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At least having an asteroid falling on our heads will be one less thing to worry about destroying us.
by forgotpwd16 4y ago
At least having an asteroid falling on our heads will be one less thing to worry about destroying us.
- gs17 4y agoA little less, but this was a small asteroid. Dimorphos is 170-ish meters in diameter. The asteroid that made the Chicxulub crater (the accused dino-killer) is thought to have been 10 kilometers in diameter.
- tatersolid 4y agoYes but an asteroid that large can be detected and deflected much further away such that even a “nudge” such as this test can avoid earth impact.