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Making a lot of assumptions: https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?d...

So it would be equivalent to a pretty big nuke. More or less a city-killer. No effects more major than that, though.



I think it depends quite a bit on things like angle and speed. I'm sure that if it came in behind Earth, in a similar orbit, at an angle it'd be very different from a head on 90 degree angle collision with it headed in the opposite direction. Size alone is probably not a great factor to estimate damage. A starting point, but not final word.


Yeah, pretty big - en.wikipedia says maybe 100 MT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/(367789)_2011_AG5


The vast majority of possible impact zones on Earth are mostly uninhabited. We'd be really unlucky to have one of these hit a city.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/...




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