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Asteroid that just buzzed Earth may not miss on return visit …. Asteroid 2012 TC4 doesn’t have a very memorable name, but it might leave quite an impression years from now. “We know today that it will also not hit the Earth in the year 2050, but the close flyby in 2050 might deflect the asteroid such that it could hit the Earth in the year 2079,” Rüdiger Jehn of the European Space Agency told AFP.
Fortunately, if 2012 TC4 does attempt to give us a violent cosmic body blow, it probably won’t be the same kind of existential collision that did in the dinosaurs. In fact, it’s likely smaller than the bolide that exploded when it hit the atmosphere over Russia in 2013, blowing out a bunch of windows in Chelyabinsk in the process.
https://www.cnet.com/news/asteroid-2012-tc4-earth-2079-2017/
Interesting reading – 2050 a way off but shows you the risks we never think of – as ATH on markets ha ha
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