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Despite the fact that large meteorites, asteroids and comets, capable of causing serious damage to our planet, or even destroy everything living on it, a phenomenon quite rare even in terms of millennia, however, the Earth annually receives a solid increase due to numerous gifts of space.
Suffice it to say that only cosmic dust every year at least a million tons fall to Earth. To this you need more add thousands of meteorites from a few grams to kilograms pieces that people often see as “shooting stars,” while trying to catch this rare moment to make a a wish. True, almost no one ever succeeds …
According to statistics collected to date, from meteorites none of the inhabitants of the earth have yet been seriously injured. Officially a recorded case when a space gift caused a person minor mutilation occurred in 1946. Then off the pebble at ten centimeters flying into the window of an Arizona farmer suffered American woman as this meteorite (fortunately ricochet) hit her in the side and left a big bruise.
But the craters from the fall of medium-sized meteorites, on our planet has enough, since it sends such packages every year gets up to fifty kilograms. But what’s amazing – people practically do not suffer from them, as if the Higher forces protect everything living on Earth from this stone rain.
The largest meteorite that fell on Earth is Lucifer. is he left Manicuagan Crater in Quebec with a diameter of 100 kilometers (on territory of modern Canada). True, this happened a long time ago, about two hundred million years ago. You can only imagine that it was a blow! According to scientists, it should be superior in strength the destruction of the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans in 1945 on Hiroshima, several hundred million times. There are other “scars” on the planet left by cosmic gifts, let’s say the famous Chiksulub crater …
By the way, astronomers constantly scare us approaching the Earth large cosmic bodies that may well fall on planet and arrange for our civilization the Apocalypse. Last thing such a threat was the asteroid 2010 NY65, with a diameter of 300 meters, flying pretty close to Earth on June 24 this year. Fortunately, the anxiety of scientists was in vain in this time. As they say, it blew …
Not really, space explorers continue to scare earthlings, to us the mysterious planet Nibiru is approaching, which in August of this years (according to other sources, in October) will enter the solar system and cause a catastrophe on Earth on a planetary scale. However, in this not everyone believes …
