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Selected quotes:

*[1] A small asteroid about 3 feet (1 meter) in size disintegrated harmlessly over Germany on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 1:32 a.m. local time (CET). At 95 minutes before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system, which monitors data on potential asteroid discoveries, gave advance warning as to where and when the asteroid would impact.

*[2] This is the eighth time in history that a small Earth-bound asteroid has been detected while still in space, before entering and disintegrating in our atmosphere.

*[3] The asteroid’s impact produced a bright fireball, or bolide, which was seen from as far away as the Czech Republic and may have scattered small meteorites on the ground at the impact site about 37 miles (60 kilometers) west of Berlin.

I'm not sure how I feel about 95 minutes warning [1], had it been larger would there be more warning or would that be the alert time had it been heading for (say) Berlin.

I'd be interested in knowing how many were missed during the time they had advance warning for the eight seen [2].

[3] Damascus Sky Iron!!

very probably small pebble sized and smaller pieces that mostly would be hard to find

>>defros+(OP)
95 mins about enough time to have a last meal while watching a movie. If you are gonna go out go out in comfort.

>>Sparky+u5
I can imagine tons of things I would do in my last minutes, but neither watching TV nor eating is among those.

>>defros+(OP)
They have some good data now. So can they calculate the likely warning times for somewhat-larger sizes of asteroid ? Then they can identify the worst case scenario and get thinking about how to address it.

>>saiya-+h7
Be honest, you'd be on HN arguing with the rest of us.

>>Sakos+79
To be fair HN is less a cesspool compared to Reddit or 4chan. But for how long?

>>Sparky+u5
I guess if the asteroid was larger and more of a threat there would be more of a notice period.

Unless its coated in Martian stealth technology...

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