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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

don’t worry, it’ll just be like a small nuke, not a planet killer… (until they update the size estimates)