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What are the odds we have a repeat of a substantial celestial object hitting Earth? Like devastatingly so, can that be quantified in some sense?
by Obscurity4340 3y ago
What are the odds we have a repeat of a substantial celestial object hitting Earth? Like devastatingly so, can that be quantified in some sense?
- BurningFrog 3y agoWe have the (incomplete) track record of hits from the last billion years or so to extrapolate from. Don't know that there has been much since that Dino Doom Rock 65m years ago?
- dylan604 3y agoEver see notices of an asteroid making it's closest approach? Sometimes, those are closer than the moon is to earth. Sometimes, they're further out. There does exist a team tracking objects for the sole purpose of deciding if there is a potential of a collision path. https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home Has some fun graphics to show what we know about. The scary part are the ones we don't know about. Some say that this groups budget is not enough.