this particular asteroid is about two times the size of the Empire Sate Building and, in case you 've never been to New York City, that's pretty freakin' huge.
If you're looking for a little more reassurance that you won't die today for a mondo space chunk hum-chucking into our world than what an overweight morning radio host can provide, take it directly from the source itself.
After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.