00:00Only one asteroid has ever reached level 4 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale,
00:04when it looked like this object, similar in size to the Eiffel Tower,
00:08might actually crash into Earth on Friday, April 13th, 2029,
00:13becoming Earth's unluckiest day in hundreds of thousands of years.
00:17And while we have ruled it out for any collision risk in the next century,
00:21it is still going to create a once-in-a-thousand-year event in just a few years,
00:26having the closest approach to Earth ever recorded for an asteroid of its size,
00:31flying significantly closer than our own satellites,
00:35and visible to the naked eye for people living in Europe, Africa, or Western Asia.
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