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Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought

Posted by Unknown on from the just-build-space-lasers dept.

Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "The B612 Foundation, a U.S.-based nuclear test monitoring group, has disclosed that their acoustic sensors show asteroid impacts to be much more common than previously thought. Between 2000 and 2013 their infrasound system detected 26 major explosions due to asteroid strikes. The impacts were gauged at energies of 1 to 600 kilotons, compared to 45 kilotons for 1945 Hiroshima bomb."

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  1. Re:1-600 kilotons by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing landed at 600 kilotons. That event would have been noticed, so I'm not sure about the purpose of the hyperbole.

    Between 1 and 7,000,000 people who read OP's post got the point.

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