2006-08-22 23:48:04 · 15 answers · asked by johnny 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Statistically it's overwhelmingly unlikely that it will happen in the next 50 years.
We just don't know though. It is possible.
Certainly there's such a small chance of it happening, it's really not worth living your life in fear of.
2006-08-22 23:51:47 · answer #1 · answered by Iain T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's highly unlikely; but there are no guarentees either way.
We are always at risk of this sort of event - just look at the moon for example and the craters on that - and there is work ongoing to see what is coming.
The chances are that it the orbit of this asteroid is known, then we would have heard by now if it was going to hit.
The planet is continually getting hit by all sorts of debris, generally very small and generally getting burnt up on the way down through the atmosphere. A minority hit the ground and it's been a long time since any serious damage has been recorded by that sort of damage.
2006-08-22 23:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by Felidae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last time an asteroid is believed to have struck the Earth is some 65 million years ago, which ended the dinosaur's life here. It is unlikely that it is going to happen again, but it could. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it if I were you.
2006-08-23 03:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends entirely on whether or not the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit, and if so, where Earth is at the time. If it never crosses our orbit then we're completely safe, but if it does, then it's just a matter of time before the two bodies happen to be in the same place at the same time. We'll only know by accurate calculations of orbits.
2006-08-22 23:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too difficult to predict as it depends upon various gravitational influences as it enters the solar system.
Many are often flung into the far reaches of space never to return.
However we're gonna have a 'near' miss in 2026, at least close enough to just see from earth with naked eye.
Thats what they reckon but even NASA regularly get their sums wrong on this. Not that they admit it readily.
2006-08-23 04:39:37 · answer #5 · answered by mexicanroadfuzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there something I should know? U have me worried that we are all gonna get hit by big asteroid. If the asteroid is size of Texas, then it will kill everything on this planet no matter where it hit.
2006-08-24 21:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by gr_bateman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth often gets hit by ability of meteors, maximum are small yet some are super adequate to reason substantial catastrophes. 225 million years in the past a huge one hit close to Newfoundland and led to the extinction of ninety 5% of existence in the international. sixty 5 million years in the past the Yucatan Peninsular grow to be hit and a number of the dinosaurs have been wiped out. it sluggish interior the final 10,000 years we had strikes in Arizona, Wolf Creek in Australia and a hundred years in the past a comet exploded only above the floor in Tunganista in Russia. we are over due for a medium sized hit.
2016-11-05 10:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are thoasand of asteroids floating in space and i believe we will be hit by one again although we get hit everyday wit small sized rocks there are the big ones out there that cud and prolly will hit us again from wat ive heard tho it wont be fer a long time and the american government has a project running preparing for the inevitable 1 day
2006-08-22 23:56:57 · answer #8 · answered by psycho p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't. Earth will probably won't be around that time. The only thing that destroys Earth itself is human being.
2006-08-23 00:04:16 · answer #9 · answered by han 0 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily.
It might miss by an even bigger margin.
Stop worrying.
2006-08-24 11:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋