The Torino scale is used to classify impacts and ranges from 0, which is no impact possibilities, to 10, which is classified as a global catastrophe.
Professor Richard P. Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences developed the Torino Scale. The IAU adopted the Torino Scale in 1999 as a means of classifying potential Earth impact events. It is an integer scale with a color-coded range from 0 to 10, primarily used by the community of people who monitor the risk of an asteroid impact to facilitate public communication. By combining probability statistics and known kinetic damage potentials into a single threat value, it serves as a communication tool for astronomers and the general public to evaluate the seriousness of collision predictions of asteroids.
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