A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared.
"Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid swarm is much lower than we believed, which is great news for planetary defense," said astronomer Quanzhi Ye of the University of Maryland in a statement. Ye led a search for the dangerous asteroids with the Zwicky Transient Facility on the Samuel Oschin Telescope at California's Palomar Observatory.
