2006-09-10 12:33:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the chances of someone being hit are 3/10 for the next 100 years
2006-09-10 19:25:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of YOU being hit? Pretty high, I'd say.
Anyone else would have an exceptionally small chance of getting clobbered by a rock from space. But if you or an associate should find a meteorite, then the odds of one of you being hit by a thrown rock increase substantially.
Anyhow, you aren't going to calculate such a thing.
2006-09-10 22:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by Bud V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not very rare, but becomes exponentially more rare as the size of the fragment increases :)
No valid mathematical models have actually figured out what the chance is, exactly.
2006-09-10 19:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you include meteorites up to any size, the chances are greater than you dying in an aircrash.
How can that be possible? Well, although the big one hasn't happened in modern times, when one does, tens of millions of people will die at once. If that happened every 100,000 years, statistically that averages to thousands per year, which is greater than the number of people who die in aircrashes.
2006-09-10 20:32:25 · answer #4 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you stand outside your house in one spot for millions of years, the chances are pretty good...
2006-09-13 14:25:56 · answer #5 · answered by Felix Arcanus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋