February 15, 2013, a certain asteroid named DA14 came so close from colliding with earth. The author used most importance to least in this blog talking about what would've happened if this did hit, and at the end about just statistics. The author himself does not seem so afraid of this event. He says in the article “but many other asteroids like it have made a crash landing on the planet in the past” and this makes it seem like it happen before and shouldn't worry about it. Some things the article is explaining is things like how big it really is, and what kind of damage it could cause.
“The asteroid is about 150 feet in diameter and has a mass estimated at about 143,000 tons," NASA astronomer Don Yeomans says. They say this could be just like the "Tunguska Event" that happen in 1908, but you never know what could happen truly. What they are trying to get across is that we are lucky this passed by and didn’t hit us. If this has happen to of hit us it would caused a blast with the energy equivalent of about 2.4 million tons or (2.4 megatons) of TNT explosives! Which is way bigger than an atomic bomb. To me this would of been a terrible event and I think anybody would've said the same thing. Even thought this kind of asteroid woudent of been like the one that distroyed the dinosours but would of still been really bad.
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