As Comet 3I/Atlas Whizzes Past Earth and Clash of Clans is Threatened By a Looming Asteroid, YouTube Scientist Hank Green Says We’re Detecting More Space Objects Than Ever — But Should We Really Be Worried?
via ign.com
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18 years ago, NASA lost an asteroid. Officially designated 2007 FT3, the Empire State Building-sized rock was tracked for around 24 hours before it slipped back into the solar system’s darkness — and it hasn’t been spotted since. It remains the fourth-largest space object with a better than 1-in-2 million chance of smashing into Earth, […]