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A comet entering the Earth's atmosphere would be a devastating event, what has become known as an ELE, Extinction Level Event. Basically, the atmosphere that came into immediate contact with the object would heat to the point that it actually burst into flames. The object would continue to heat its surroundings as it continued to fall. Different effects would result in a land fall event and a sea fall event.

The crater formed in a land fall event would be vastly larger than the object itself. Keep in mind that Meteor Crater in Arizona is about a mile in diameter and half a mile deep. The object that dug that big a hole was about the size of a refrigerator. Comets are much, much larger, say the size of Rhode Island. Trillions of tons of soil and rock would be thrown into the upper atmosphere, blocking the sun and causing world wide winter for decades to centuries. Life on Earth would essentially end. The lucky ones would be vaporized in the initial blast. Any on the opposite side of the globe who survived would not last long afterward.

There are several theories of what would result from a sea fall, from the planet cracking like an egg, to 1,000 foot tsunamis raking the globe. In addition to the mud and sea bottom that was thrown into the atmosphere, hundreds of trillions of gallons of sea water would be vaporized as well. The result would resemble the nuclear winter threatened by full release scenarios of the Cold War.

Regardless, either way, the days of Man would end. As would the time of most other life we know.

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