Fact Sheet about meteorite impacts and Near Earth Objects (NEO’s)

The following data about Near-Earth Objects are from Duncan Steel's book ‘Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets’ . About 2,000 objects massive enough (1 km diameter) to cause global catastrophe are known to cross Earth's orbit. Such an impacting object would wipe out 25% of humanity.

How often do meteorites hit the Earth?

A football-sized rock could wipe out half of the Netherlands.
A 10-km asteroid (like the one that killed the dinosaurs) could kill all people on Earth.

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God Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2008-07-01 13:58:51 I would pray the God almighty that such thing like the one that occured in mexico should never occur.

Written by 'Guest' on 2006-04-03 18:20:43 Well, the Speed of a Bullet is 1500 m/s    that's   90.000m/min  5.400.000 m/hour    pretty fast     Remember, there is no friction or gravity to stop the bullet, so theoreticly it should lose no speed    if the Police has Bullet-proof vests, than NASA should have... :P    (Remember, im not a NASA-scientist, so anything I say could be wrong)    Also Check:  Aerogel

Jasper Written by 'Guest' on 2006-04-02 17:28:04 Intresting. I remember reading something about this subject some time ago.   millions of little (say 1 cm?) objects in orbit above earth, moving more then 100.000 kmp. Imagen what happens if an astronaut gets hit by one of these...

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