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Will comet ever hit earth

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Fragments of comets hit Earth all the time... well, not all the time, but in large numbers several times a year; this is what most "meteor showers" are.

It's certainly possible for a larger comet to hit Earth, and given a long enough time period it becomes a virtual certainty. However, "long enough" is measured in hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and we think we probably had a significantly-larger-than-usual one a little over a hundred years ago... look up "Tunguska Event".

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12y ago

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