"The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. EST (0526 GMT), passing just under six times the distance between Earth and the moon. The flyby came on the fourth anniversary of 2020 XR's discovery,.
"Asteroid 2020 XR is somewhere between 1,000 and 2,300 feet (300 and 700 meters) wide, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). At roughly the size of a large stadium — or several million elephants, according to ChatGPT — 2020 XR is more than capable of destroying one of our Earth cities, should the asteroid ever happen to tragically intersect with one. And, for a little while after the asteroid's 2020 discovery, astronomers feared the space rock had a chance of doing just that."
I would not want to be on the same continent with that collision.
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