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The amount of "suckage" in case it would hit Earth is mentioned in the article:

> Fortunately, it won't impact Earth. But it would be a bad day if it did. "This is a big object. An object of this size is going to have the equivalent impact energy in the hundreds of megaton approaching a gigaton," Brown said. "That'd be a regional impact. It's the sort of thing that if it hit the east coast of the U.S., you would have catastrophic effects over most of the eastern seaboard. But it's not big enough to affect the whole world."



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