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The Wikipedia page for the Tunguska event says it was “a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) in size.” How far out would something that size be det
by andrewl 4y ago
The Wikipedia page for the Tunguska event says it was “a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) in size.” How far out would something that size be detected? This is very much out of my area.
- kzrdude 4y agoThe other mentioned much smaller one has a whole article on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_CX1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_CX1 This one was 1 m wide and it seems like it was detected about 6 hours before coming down.
- ale42 4y agoBut, as someone mentioned in another comment, the fact that we can detect a 1 m objects doesn't mean that we can detect all of them, far from that. Same for larger ones, we just have more chances of detecting those than 1 m-sized ones.