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Re: Killer asteroids

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Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> wrote:

>> > https://www.universetoday.com/36398/
>> > what-is-the-difference-between-asteroids-and-meteorites/
>
>"While we know that some asteroids pass very close to Earth's orbit
>around the Sun, we've been lucky in the history of humanity that we
>haven't had a large asteroid hit Earth in the past several thousand
>years. It wasn't until satellite imagery of Earth became widely
>available that scientists were able to see evidence of past asteroid
>impacts.?
>
>> > If it landed, it's not an asteroid.
>
>Wrong again, idiot. You should read your source *before&
>using it.

Where is the cut-off between "Asteroid" and "Meteor"?  We have
Tunguska, Riyadh, and somewhere in the Amazon (in the thirties?) as
major impacts in the past 140 years.  Fortunately, each of them hit in
pretty thinly (or non- in the case of the Saudi one) populated areas.
-- 
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