Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists
Scans of underwater crater in West Africa suggest another large asteroid smashed into the planet around the same time The massive asteroid that brought about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs when it crashed into Earth 66m years ago was not a one-off, researchers say. Detailed scans of an underwater crater off the coast of Guinea in West Africa suggest that it was created when another large asteroid smashed into the planet around the same time at the end of the Cretaceous period. Continue reading...
eh, anyone can be struck by lightning, especially people who golf a lot and have the kind of judgment that makes them look straight at the sun during the non-totality part of a solar eclipse. i'd require a perfect-sized asteroid to strike with surgical precision to even consider it.
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Instead of blasting a golden opportunity, we should bolt a bunch of rockets to an incoming asteroid and park in LEO. Then we can take our sweat time mining all the goodies. When the asteroid is an empty shell, we'll have a space station starter kit.
www.space.com/asteroid-apo... i mean weight, velocity etc matters but uhm it's not good
The damage caused by an asteroid impact depends on its size. But how big must a space rock be to cause an apocalypse?
even if you want to make this argument (which i don't buy) luna II is an asteroid! axis is an EXTREMELY LARGE asteroid. About the same size as A Baoa Qu which is 33.75 km x 22.5 km or 20.97 MILES x 13.98 MILES so like, I am having a hard time believe a 20 mile long asteroid hitting earth would be ok