A Tiny Asteroid was Discovered Mere Hours Before it Crashed Into the Earth - By Nancy_A
about once a year, an asteroid about the size of 2022 EB5 hits Earth’s atmosphere, creates a really impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. Any asteroids smaller than about 20 meters will most likely burn up as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere. If any portion of it does survive, it would be in smaller meteorites that cause little or no damage. But not always.
If a rocky meteoroid larger than 25 meters but smaller than one kilometer were to hit Earth, it would likely cause local damage to the impact area. Anything larger could cause significant damage. NASA estimates that every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth.– which was an estimated 57 to 130 meters wide , was detected just hours before it made a close pass by Earth, coming within about 73,000 kilometers . That’s less than one-fifth of the distance to the Moon and is considered uncomfortably close. If an asteroid that size hit Earth, it could wipe out an entire city.
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