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NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid. (science.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Article says that it's about 60m in size (I assume that's the diameter). Moon's gonna be fine. Let's hope we don't have humans up there when it hits though. Although by then we'll have a much better estimate, so maybe we'll be 99.9% sure that it doesn't hit. Or that it does, time will tell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks!