Discussion

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids, and It's Barely Even Started!

throw0101a: Any collisions that Earth has to worry about?(Once heard the observation that the dinosaurs didn't go extinct because of an impact: they went extinct because they didn't have a space program.)

akoumjian: None yet. Any discoveries made with a possible impact risk would end up on the NEO Confirmation Page for follow up. As soon as an observation arc is long enough and gets a provisional designation, impact risks would be calculated and displayed at both NEOCC and JPL Sentry. We also do impact probability calculations and visualizations at Asteroid Institute.