> Earth would recover This concept always feels slightly strange to me. Earth does not "recover" from anything, nor does anything that we or an asteroid could

> Earth would recover This concept always feels slightly strange to me. Earth does not "recover" from anything, nor does anything that we or an asteroid could do "damage" Earth. Make it less hospitable for us, sure! But Earth itself has always been constantly changing due to external and internal forces, sometimes at a rapid rate and always at a slow rate, and none of that change is fundamentally positive or negative to Earth itself.