is an asteriod or metior over due to hit us?

Answer 1

No, they are not on a schedule so can never be overdue.

Millions of meteors hit the earth every day.

Answer 2

Meteors strike Earth every day. Meteors are made of the same material as asteroids but are much, much smaller. The latest major impact occurred in 1908 (..the Tunguska event..), although that may have been a comet.

Here's the estimated "schedule" of impacts showing the size of the impacting body and how often such an object may hit us --


150 meters 5,000 years
500 meters 50,000 years
1.5 kilometers 200,000 years
3 km 1-million years
7 km 10-million years
16 km 100-million years

Answer 3

There is nothing that is "due". You can say that on average we'll be hit by a meteor of a certain size but nature doesn't know schedules like that . If you say that the average height of 100 people is a certain number, you may gather 100 people together at random and not have one person the exact same height as the average. When it happens, it happens and you can't predict the occurrence without seeing it approach.

Answer 4

Maybe, maybe not. We get hit all the time by small ones. Every shooting star is a meteor hitting Earth. (If it enters the atmosphere but vaporizes before hitting the ground, that counts as hitting Earth.) And one big enough to cause an explosion as large as an atomic bomb hit a remote area of Siberia in 1908, but it exploded in the air and did not leave a crater.

Answer 5

It relies upon on how large the asteroid is. If it really is as large because the single which in basic terms neglected the Earth very last evening, then it has he potential to finish a touch severe damage. If the moon is thrown off target then it ought to influence the tides, no matter if it really is "pushed" in route of the Earth then it really is possible that the influence of gravity on the moon ought to pull it into Earth and lets die. Or, it ought to start up a sparkling, diverse orbit and the tides ought to substitute. Or if the Moon is moved faraway from the Earth then the tides ought to substitute and it would adapt to a sparkling orbit. If the asteroid isn't very massive then it ought to easily make yet another crater.

Answer 6

that's an inevitability but the chances it will happen in our life time is negligible, and if it did .... well the only way we would know about it is when it enters the atmosphere and every body starts to freak out
I know I would.
look up in the sky its a plane its a bird is a FREAKEN METEOR RUN FOR IT
although small meteors fall to earth by the thousands every year its kind strange that no one has died because of them yet hmmmmmmmmmmmmm :/

Answer 7

I must say that I do hope so... It would make for an interesting experience, however the greater scientific consensus is that probability states we will eventually have an impact with a large object, though there is no solid data on any to hit us soon. (although claims are made far to often...)

Answer 8

When will Super-volcano Yellowstone blow, nobody knows, just as nobody knows when mother earth is destine to be struck by an asteroid.

Answer 9

yup, the 4:30 meteor is late by about an hour 45 minutes.

Answer 10

yes its about to happen, sooner or later a meteor is going to hit earth and make it more unstabe which will put its axes off even more wich will make our summer about 200 degrees and our winters -100 degrees