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September 11, 2024

#2984: Asteroid News explain

Asteroid News

[Close-up of Blondie as a news anchor speaking, alongside an image to the left of an asteroid passing by Earth. The path of the asteroid is shown as a dashed line near the top-left, with the Moon orbiting the Earth below it.]

Blondie: Astronomers initially said there was a one-in-6,000 chance that the newly-discovered asteroid might “do something cool” in 2063, but further observations determined it will be “just a boring dot like all the others.”