So, is it time to start digging the underground bunker, or should we give up completely and go to a quarantine rave (because who cares about COVID in the face of an extinction level event)? Neither, explains Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer and professor of astrophysics at Queen’s University Belfast.
“An impact of a small asteroid, say 200 to 300 metres across, could devastate a state or small country,” he says. “An asteroid one kilometre across or larger could produce climatic effects across the globe that could result in severe food shortages. Plus, of course, devastation close to the impact point.”
A diagram showing the orbit of Asteroid 2001 FO32Image via NASA
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