Asteroid Impacts Earth 2 Hours After Being Discovered WhatDoYouThink?
A 10-foot-wide asteroid recently struck the Earth north of Iceland within hours of its discovery by astronomers, generating a blast equal to3,000 tons of exploding TNT and making it
only the fifth asteroid ever observed in space before striking the Earth. What do“Yikes, any bigger and it could have wiped out the dinosaurs again.”Rachel Coleman, Subway Car Doorman
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