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What are the chances an asteroid will hit your house?


By Movoto

Tomorrow the 143,000 ton asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass a mere 17,200 miles from the Earth. What does that mean for you? Nothing. There’s no chance of DA14 hitting the Earth. We’ll all be fine this time around, but hundreds of smaller objects strike the Earth every year.Our friends at Movoto have a handy calculator to get the odds that one will hit your house. Give it a try, and you’ll probably feel a lot better about the whole thing.
via Geekosystem

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