FUTURE EARTH 2121 - WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A GIANT ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH? A "HELLSCAPE" SCENARIO


But what if something much larger, around 10km across (the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs) collided with our planet? Such events are extremely rare. They only happen every 50 million years or so, Britt Scharringhausen, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Beloit College, tells Inverse. But the impact of such an impact would be devastating.

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