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This was a close call!
We would not have had time to react!

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That would have been painful!

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An interesting article about asteroids. It's saying anything smaller than 25 M will burn up in the atmosphere.

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/aster ... o%20damage.

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Some country may have had a new tourist attraction.
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