2006-07-03 07:56:38 · 10 answers · asked by xkeil 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
IT was an asteroid.
It would be similar to what happened 65 million years ago. There would have been a cataclysmic explosion, blasting massive clouds of dust into the atmosphere. If it had hit in the ocean, there would have been a massive tsunami, that would have rolled around the worlds oceans several times. There would be a massive fireball and everything within several hundred miles of the impact site would be incinerated.
2006-07-03 08:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of it would burn up on entry into the atmosphere but being as big as it was, (1/2 mile wide I think), enough of it would remain to cause cataclysmic upheaval such as greatly increased seismic activity, followed by worldwide tsunamis and a debris cloud that would block out the sun for about six months to a year. In short it would mean about 1/4 to 1/2 of the worlds population in casualties. I am not 100 percent sure of these figures, but I don't think I'm that far off.
2006-07-03 15:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by JoeThatUKnow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eons of years ago a similar event wiped out the towering dinasaurs from the surface of the earth.While this made the Descent of Man possible if only it had missed the earth by a hair breadth the dinasaurs would have evolved into homo sapiens.Western authoris have considered this possibility and also drew pictures of the Dino man that would have appeared. The question of man coming up would have been nipped in the bud. The same scenario would have repeated had the meteor collided with the earth. Man would have been wiped out in one stroke. There would not heen you asking this question and me repling to it.
2006-07-03 15:12:46 · answer #3 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be a bigger boom than a newkewlar bomb, and put enough dust in the atmospeherfe to shade the sun and cause a new Ice Age.
2006-07-03 15:00:18 · answer #4 · answered by kreevich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will pass 10 more times near earth.I think they make plans to explode it with nuclear weapons.
2006-07-03 15:24:05 · answer #5 · answered by qwine2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would wipe out a small country.
2006-07-03 15:29:06 · answer #6 · answered by Irish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on where it hit, you probably wouldn't be asking this question.
2006-07-03 15:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by bobemac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt know this either you should add a link
2006-07-03 15:01:23 · answer #8 · answered by slatty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it didn't that's all that mattered.
2006-07-03 14:59:57 · answer #9 · answered by suppy_sup 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what? i didn't hear about this?!
2006-07-03 14:59:46 · answer #10 · answered by B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋