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Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy


NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.

Certain parameter values depend upon the specific impact event in question, but they change little among the various table entries. All other colors (green, yellow, orange, and red) represent their respective Torino scale. Zero indicates the best-fitting, central (nominal) orbit and the further from zero, the less likely the event: Roughly 99% of all the uncertainty region lies between -3 and +3.

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