2006-11-17 04:29:51 · 12 answers · asked by paresh p 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Earth will probably not be destroyed. All life may die but the Earth will still be here. Something about 300 meters across hits the Earth about once every 20,000 - 30,000 years. This is big enough to make a city sized crater.
Here is a link to the Top 10 Ways to Destroy the Earth.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html
To blow up the Earth you would need 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much
energy.
2006-11-17 04:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,
Many large things have collided with Earth in the past and there is no reason to think it won't happen again. Earth can take a good whack....it's thought that it once collided with a Mars sized object, possibly creating the moon. It'd take a lot to have the planet be destroyed...that is smashed to bits or flung out of orbit or towards the sun. Even if it were smashed to bits it'd probably eventually pull itself back together.
I wouldn't stay up nights worrying about it though. You're far more likely to be killed by something mundane.
By the way, the universe is what we are in.
2006-11-17 09:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is a large and rugged planet. It will not be destroyed unless it is struck by something much larger than it is.
However, an asteroid the size of Rhode Island, might render the Earth unihabitable by humans for a very long time.
The Earth would go on, but we would not.
2006-11-17 05:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by Otis F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didnt it happen about forty years ago a very young scientist said a black dwarf star was on collision path with earth and proved it due to the second hand in time was going backwards. and this to stop the collision every one on earth had to pay him for his services and then stop it from reaching earth.
2006-11-17 07:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
with all the millions and billions of things floating about in the cosmos, there is always a chance that some large asteroid will come hurtling at us, destroying the Earth and turning it into dust. There isn't much that can be done about it, and we've been lucky so far. Sure, we'll see it coming, but there wont be much we can do about it. sorry.
2006-11-17 04:33:10 · answer #5 · answered by stu b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth will always have this danger, we MAY get hit by something in 2012.
2006-11-17 04:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it's unlikely. Consider most objects in our solar system collided many million years ago, during the early years of its formation. Nowadays, the chance of our planet being hit by an object so big as to destroy it are nearly zero.
2006-11-17 06:42:52 · answer #7 · answered by César 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may take some contemplation.
Hmm.from the universe or space eh?
2006-11-18 03:32:17 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, but it's simply not likely. Big impacts are rare.
But one 75 million years ago was big enough that it's effects (mostly climate change) were enough to kill off the dinosaurs.
More info:
http://www.teresi.us/html/writing/dinosaur_meteor.html
2006-11-17 06:15:10 · answer #9 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We cannot predict about that but why do you worry even if it is true it will be very very long after you and I leave this world.
2006-11-17 04:33:40 · answer #10 · answered by khayum p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋