Possible Impacts With Earth
Until December 2004, it was considered to have the highest (though still very low) likelihood of any near-Earth object to impact Earth in the next 100 years. It is ranked a zero on the Torino Scale of impact risk (the scale is 0–10) and is listed on Sentry Risk Table. It was briefly surpassed in December 2004 by 99942 Apophis (which at the time was known only by its provisional designation 2004 MN4).
Based on 31 observations of 2000 SG344 made from May 1999 to October 2000, there is about a 1 in 556 chance that it will collide with Earth between 2068 and 2101. If that happens, the energy released by the impact would be an estimated 1.1 megatons of TNT.
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