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Giant dark asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago came from the outer reaches of the solar systems main asteroid belt and caused extinction of non- avian dinosaurs.

Top space experts including Dr Iain McDonald and physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson believe that devastating asteroid hits are not confined to the past

Story highlights Asteroids may be small compared to size of the Earth but they can cause massive destruction owing to their very high speeds It may be just another day for us here on Earth. We may get up and go about as if nothing is going to happen. But ask those Dinosaurs who were out on the day an asteroid struck Earth. Well, you cant of course because all of them are dead (along with around 75 per cent of life at that time on the planet). This is what happens when a huge space rock decides ...

Story highlights Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021 The largest asteroid to fly past the Earth in 2021 is set to make a close approach to the planet on March 21. Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021. Based on its brightness and the way it reflects light, 2001 FO32 is approximately between 0.767 to 1.714 kilometres in di...

Of these objects in the solar system. we are tracking 11,000 because of funding. i guess we can afford the housing and urban development. >> do you expect it at any moment, this thing to happen? >> no, i dont. if people think i have, dont. >> how should people prepare for the inevitable asteroid collision? >> they shouldnt prepare and they hospital go and buy apocalypse freeze dried supplies. >> they will come knocking. enjoy your coffee. always a pleasure, joe. if he is in your town, go and sat...

System. we are tracking 11,000 because of funding. i guess we can afford the housing and urban development. >> do you expect it at any moment, this thing to happen? >> no, i dont. if people think i have, dont. >> how should people prepare for the inevitable asteroid collision? >> they shouldnt prepare and they hospital go and buy apocalypse freeze dried supplies. >> they will come knocking. enjoy your coffee. always a pleasure, joe. if he is in your town, go and satisfy him perform. he is quite ...

Of these objects in the solar system. we are tracking 11,000 because of funding. i guess we can afford the housing and urban development. >> do you expect it at any moment, this thing to happen? >> no, i dont. if people think i have, dont. >> how should people prepare for the inevitable asteroid collision? >> they shouldnt prepare and they hospital go and buy apocalypse freeze dried supplies. >> they will come knocking. enjoy your coffee. always a pleasure, joe. if he is in your town, go and sat...

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Dinosaurs and there was a cosmic collision, $100 million years ago and debris was sent all over the asteroid belt and one piece, get this, one piece hit the earth from the collision, 65 million years ago, and that is when the dinosaurs died in perhaps one year and we think and as steroid collision, a big one probably wiped out the dinosaurs. bill: that would be significant for people like you and what happened with, some folks saw it deep in space and said check that out and we took the hubble t...

Size of the rose bowl stadium and is too small to be a planet or a star or galaxy and its not a comet, there is no gas in the tail of the comet and its not a meteor, it is not inside the earths atmosphere and what is it and we are scratching our heads and the open thing we can think of at the presents time is once in a lifetime event, the collision of two asteroids in space and we have never seen that before and creating a starburst, a starburst of debris, and if that theory is correct it means ...