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aston on Oct 6, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: A small asteroid (~5 m) will hit Sudan on 2008 Oct...

What will the impact be?

d0mine on Oct 6, 2008 | [–]

Nothing serious.

"Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan" http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html

gduffy on Oct 6, 2008 | | [–]

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html

"The absolute magnitude indicates that the object will not survive passage through the atmosphere."

henning on Oct 6, 2008 | | [–]

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, WAKE UP SHEEPLE

petercooper on Oct 7, 2008 | [–]

It's as much as an "impact" with Earth as dropping a sweetner in your coffee is an "impact."

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