A Meteor will Strike the Earth and Destroy All Life Forms
“With millions and millions of meteors hurtling around in our
solar system, there’s always a chance that one could hit Earth at
any moment. But what would be the consequences and how would
the Earth be affected if one does happen to hit? If an object from
space hit the sea, a huge tidal wave would be formed, hundreds of
meters high, which would leave most of the world under water for a
period of time, destroying and killing everything in it’s way. This
would have a catastrophic effect on the Earth, as most people
would be killed, and leaving countries powerless, unable to do
anything. Crops would also be destroyed, starvation would kill all
of the survivors, homes would be washed away leaving no shelters,
and without hospitals or medication disease would spread quickly
killing even more people. As it can be seen, the effects of a
meteorite hitting the sea would only cause a temporary, yet
catastrophic flooding. Though a direct impact on the ice caps
could cause a larger scale of destruction. The caps would melt,
increasing the sea level a few hundred meters high. On the other
hand, if an object from space hit land, it would cause a huge
amount of dust and dirt to be thrown into the atmosphere. This
dust would stay in the atmosphere for many years and would block
out the sun, causing the Earth to fall into a darkness, as well as
leaving many consequences on the planet. Crops would fail due to
the lack of light, which would cause massive starvation and death.
It would be difficult to breathe without special masks to filter out
the dust. With no sunlight or heat, being able to penetrate the
atmosphere, the overall world temperature would fall dramatically,
causing a possible ice age to occur.” - “Death in June” (Discover;
page 16). With all the facts and governmental resource, there is a
good chance that a meteor could hit the earth at any moment
causing the world to end!
Over the millions of years that Earth has existed, there have
been billions of meteors that hit, but of all the ones that hit,
scientists concluded that they were not Earth threatening. The
most recent meteor that struck Earth, that caused serious damage,
was on the morning on June 30, 1908 in Siberia. When it hit, it had
the force of a 20-megaton nuclear bomb. The collision caused
nearly a t...
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...ll 100 or more people. They also feel that 1,000 people or
more would get killed once in every 1,000,000 years due to a
meteor. Just to warn you, there hasn’t been a major strike that
killed that many people or left serious damage to Earth in a few
million years. The last time a meteor caused great damage was in
prehistoric time when a meteor weighting about 132,000 pounds
landed in Southwest Africa. That meteor is the biggest one that
scientists ever found on Earth. Sadly for us though, there are
millions of meteors that are hundreds of times bigger then the one
that hit in Southwest Africa. Just imagine the damage that could
occur if one does hit!
In conclusion, a meteor will hit the Earth in the near future
destroying the human race and every other form of life on Earth.
It probably won’t happen in the next ten years, but maybe
somewhere between the next hundred to thousand years. There
have been many meteors that have struck the Earth’s surface, and
there’s still millions of huge ones out there. Probably the only good
news regarding a meteor hitting the Earth, is that both the
Government and NASA are working on many ideas to prevent it
from happening.
The universe is a shooting gallery and earth is the bullseye. The earth is always under threat of a doomesday asteroid that will wipe out civilization. There are over one thousand asteroids traveling toward earth and only three quarters are accounted for. Where are the other one forth? No one knows because the government doesn't fund NASA astrologists enough to cover the astroids. Just one impact could end civilization as we know it. No matter where it hits everything would die, even bacteria. To give an estimate how much is spent on asteroid detection. It is said to be less than the cost to operate a single McDonald's franchise. Total disaster would occur no matter where the asteroid hit. Land, sea it doesn't matter. Ocean impact would create a number of things. First, a Tsunami(tidal wave) would be created on impact. The wave would be hundreds for feet high traveling hundreds of miles per hour. It would start to slow down crashing ashore through all coastal city. Then, finally wash up hundreds for miles inland. " The mid-Atlantic Ocean impact ranging from 400 meters to 5 kilometers in diameter. This would generate a tsunami that would sweep across the upper East Coast of the United States to the Appalachian Mountains."(Gottschalk 1) The blast of the impact would equal a 300 gigaton blast of T.N.T. Also, 2.4 seconds after impact, a small fireball with a temperature of 5000'C would sweep across long island. A land fall strike would cause total divistation. The asteroid would create a earth trembling impact causing earth quakes around the world. The binding flash will show impact and the crater would be twenty miles across. Then, a blanket of dust and debris would blanket the earth and block the sun's light. This would occur for hundreds of years and the climate would be disrupted. Global killer no matter where it hits. The end of the world is only 28 years, 10 months, 19 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes, and 39 seconds away. An asteroid named XF11 is on route to hit earth directly. October is the month and 2038 is the year. Discovered by Jim Scotti on December 6, 1997 while looking at star with the Arizona Spacewatch Group. The asteroid "is predicted to pass at a rather comfortable distance of about 600,000 miles (about 960,000 kilometers) in 2028," "reported Dr. Donald K.
I’ve always wondered how the human race will go extinct. I’m not a survivalist or have a cabin in the middle of nowhere with canned food that will last me the next five years. I don’t spend hours pondering this question or losing sleep, but I am simply interested in this puzzle. The answer to this question can have numerous answers, but no one knows for certain how it will happen. The discussion about how the world will end would lead me to present this topic at a UVA Flash Seminar if given the opportunity.
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