According to the experts, a newly spotted asteroid called 2023 DW is one to keep an eye on.
. You're free to interpret and respond to those odds as you wish, but we won't be moving to an underground bunker just yet.used to assess these objects, so it's only just above zero and a long way from the highest score of 10. It would need to reach a level 3 to have a 1 percent chance of localized destruction, and it's a long way from the catastrophic, human civilization-threatening certainty of a level 10.in 1908.
What we do know is that 2023 DW is some 0.14 astronomical units away from Earth right now, the rough equivalent of 21 million kilometers or 13 million miles. It's speeding along at a velocity of 24.63 km/s . At the moment, that tracker is showing 2023 DW missing Earth by about 1.8 million kilometers – hence that 1 in 625 chance – but these estimates will, of course, be refined in the years ahead.
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