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Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or
Last summer, a U.S.-Italian team estimated that 35 million pounds of rock and dust were ejected. RELATED | Asteroid forms a debris cloud after intentional hit from spacecraft The good news is that even with the change in the asteroids’ course, Earth remains safely out of their way for the foreseeable future.
In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to end up like the dinosaurs. On March 6, scientists ...