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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago

Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide, large enough to cause localized devastation near the impact site. The asteroid responsible for the Tunguska event of 1908, which leveled some 500 square miles (1,287 square kilometers) of forest in remote Siberia, was probably about the same size.

So nothing to worry about

Provided it enters in a similarly uninhabited location.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Sarcasm?

Idk about you but if it levels 1287 km² of forest, I don't think that would exactly be good news for a populated area. On the upper range, it could be equivalent to a 40 megatonne bomb.

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