If 2023 DW does collide with our planet, the impact would be comparable to the Tunguska 12-megaton event that slammed into Siberia 114 years ago. Gladiators legend Falcon has died aged 59: Bernadette Hunt passes away after being diagnosed with cancer, a family member reveals.EXCLUSIVE Revealed: US serviceman and his British wife are among three suspects arrested for double shooting of her former lover and his father in 'custody battle'.Gwyneth Paltrow WINS her case: Jury rules optometrist WAS to blame for 2016 Utah ski crash as gracious actress tells her 'deflated' opponent 'I wish you well', moments after verdict.Where does your income put you among Britain's earners? The official statistics that reveal where you stand.Both NASA and ESA still predict the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth on February 14 2046, but NASA says the nearest it will get is 1,998,550 miles (3,216,354 km) away.
It is fourth on the ESA's risk list, which gives its impact probability a one in 5,494, or 0.018 per cent.īoth agencies still predict it will make its closest approach to Earth on February 14 2046, but NASA says the nearest it will get is 1,998,550 miles (3,216,354 km) away. NASA officially announced the discovery of 2023 DW on March 7, noting that it 'takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future.'īy this point, the odds of a collision were up to one in 560, based on 62 observations.īut now it has been demoted to eighth on NASA's Risk List with a 0 on the Torino scale, meaning there is virtually no chance of collision. On March 1, an Italian astronomer shared NASA showed a one in 1,200 chance of it striking Earth, but the next day this increased to one in 710. 2023 DW was first spotted through an asteroid search program based in Chile's Atacama Desert on February 26.
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