• atzanteol
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    8 months ago

    This means it’s an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.

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      8 months ago

      So… Asteroid that would have burned up in the atmosphere will miss us instead. I guess that’s good news?