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Location: Nor California & Pac NW
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2012 DA14 has 2.5 megaton (MT) kinetic energy = 1X10^16 joules (J) = 1.3 x 10^8 kg * (1.27 x 10^4 m)^2
If it were 2X as large (diameter), so as to be football field size, it would have 10 MT energy.
About the size of the one of the larger US nuclear weapons.
I think it would be good if it hit the earth, on land somewhere without much intelligent life - Alabama? j/k - and left a warning. That we should develop an effective asteroid deflection system.
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1989 3.2 Carrera coupe; 1988 Westy Vanagon, Zetec; 1986 E28 M30; 1994 W124; 2004 S211
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