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A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth’s orbit, giving it a chance to impact.