Torino skala

Torino skala

The official scale (created by Professor Richard P. Binzel and formalized in Torino, Italy in 1999) for categorizing the Earth impact hazard for asteroids and comets. Values range from 0 (no chance of collision with Earth) to 10 (collision with global climatic disasters). (Torino Scale)

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