The Earth is toltally eliminated, in case of a metheore hits us?
If it is, how are the chances of this happens? (percentage)
In case of that not be true, can you tell me why?
2006-06-28 19:50:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
meteors are very small....comets are very big.....so you should be afraid of comets..
meteors fall all the time...
u know what, so many comets pass very close to earth....scientists at NASA say that chance that a comet hits earth is very high...though, they never found a comet whose path
cuts the earths path...(many paths cut earths orbit.,but not when earth is there at the intersection point)......
It is because of Jupiter that most comets dont hit earth...coz jupiter attracts them with so much more power than earth....
1300 earths fit in the volume of jupiter......
2006-06-28 20:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by raj_6c1 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If a meteor hits the earth a large part would be blown off and it would form debris in space and the part which would be saved would not be able to sustain life because of the impact.The chances of a meteor hitting the earth 4 years ago were 1 in 100000000 but now it is 1 in 500000 so the danger is increasing.
2006-06-29 11:34:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rest easy...No, meteors hit the earth every day. Short of a collision with an earth-sized object (no known possibility of this), nothing will blow the earth apart and a collision may only make it change course (of course, those people on the collision side will be totally eliminated). A near-by supernova (another sun blowing up) could destroy all life on the surface, as could a major nuclear war, but blowing up the earth? No.
2006-06-29 02:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by Pandak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not true. A meteor stirkes the earth about 1000 times a day. In order for a meteor to eliminate the earth, it would have to be really big.
So, sleep well and don't worry about this question.
Good Luck!
2006-06-29 03:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by klund_pa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chance of a meteor in your life time is small, chance of meteor in next one million years good, all good, all ok mankind gone long time before meteor. Dinos not so lucky, meteor kill dinos, to dumb to leave.
2006-06-29 02:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the size of the meteor, chances are slim
2006-06-29 03:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by daniel.gzmn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if a meteor does stike.. it is likely that a large portion of the world would be lost to death.
However.... the odds of that happening are:
.0000000000000000001%
2006-06-29 02:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup
2006-06-29 02:54:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋