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No asteroid is at all harmful to us or to Earth unless our planet and the Asteroid

draw unusually close together. If that were to happen, then yes, you'd have to say

that for a close encounter of any given distance, the probability of unpleasant results

would vary roughly in proportion to the asteroid's physical size.

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