Normal_Anomaly comments on 60m Asteroid currently assigned a .022% chance of hitting Earth. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 07 March 2012 03:13:06AM 1 point [-]

IIRC, the main damage from asteroid impacts is the tidal wave resulting from a probable drop in the ocean, which would cause deaths within an order or two of the Indonesian tsunami in '04.