Posted on 03/05/2017 8:03:05 PM PST by BenLurkin
But the time is short.
No we wont all die. If it were to enter the atmosphere most of it if not all of it would be burned up. Now something on the order of a few hundred yards or more across and yeah, we’ll have some major problems.Fact is stuff it’s our atmosphere all the time. Most of it isn’t anything to worry about and thankfully we’ve got ‘’protector’’, you might say. Jupiter. Jupiter is our ‘’cosmic shortstop’’. The old “King Of the Planets’’ with it’s powerful gravity usually pulls in all kinds of stuff that would come smashing into us. Hate to be a downer but Jupiter doesn’t get everything. Someday some big hunk of iron or nickel or a big dirty snowball it going to get us and it’ll be game over. Hey, that’s just how it is.
Asteroids orbit the sun
If they get dragged into the earth’s orbit they become meteors
A meteor that strikes the earth is a meteorite
Some people call asteroids which orbit close enough to possibly become a meteor ....meteoroids
Scientists love nomenclature
Regolithic bttt
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