Asteroid 2024 RW1 seen over the Philippines
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The shock discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1, mere hours earlier than it hit Earth harmlessly this week, could have you ever questioning whether or not we’re vulnerable to bigger area rocks popping out of nowhere and wreaking devastation. Fortunately, our means to trace asteroids is on the rise, even when we will’t catch all of them.
“We consider we all know greater than 90 per cent of the asteroids which might be about one kilometre in dimension, the place one kilometre is taken into account, not a planet killer, however one thing that will destroy an entire area or an entire continent,” says Ian Carnelli at…
