A Meteor will Strike the Earth and Destroy All Life Forms

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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.

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