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Apophis is 460 feet long. I’m not impressed. I’d bet that this is nothing new, but rather is just the first risk like this that we’ve identified.
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First, 800 something feet, not 460.
Second, 800 feet wide doesn’t sound like much until you realize that a 150ft wide one made a crater 4100ft in diameter.
a 1-2 mile wide one made a crater 52 miles in diameter.
The problem is the Earth is mostly water, so chances are if it hits it would an ocean. As much as I hate most things that come out of California, I wouldn’t want to see it get hit by 50 foot waves for an hour.
NASA seems to be on top of it. There is no sense doing much now, because if you do try to nudge it off course you could end up pushing into the keyhole when if you had done nothing it would have missed.