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likelihood of destruction due to meteors, comets or
asteroids hitting the earth. |
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"What are the odds that an asteroid impact will destroy
your being in a given year? Slim -- 1 in 74,817,414,
according to data compiled by The
Economist."
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C/Net |
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"Asteroids with a 1 km (0.62 mi) diameter strike
Earth every 500,000 years on average. Large
collisions – with 5 km (3 mi) objects – happen
approximately once every twenty million years. The last
known impact of an object of 10 km (6 mi) or more in
diameter was at the Cretaceous–Paleogene
extinction event 66
million years ago." Read More
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