Is a meteor or asteroid hitting the earth and causing a major problem for me or other people a real threat? What is the chance that I or others can get hurt?
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Literally tons of meteors enter earth’s atmosphere every year. Most are so small nobody even sees them. Others just burn up in the atmosphere harmlessly and make a brief light show. A very small number will impact the earth with minimal damage (mostly in the ocean because that’s most of earth’s surface). While large meteorites have impacted the ground and caused global devastation in the past, and it *will* happen again, you’re talking about something that happens once every several million years. So the probability of it happening in your lifetime is next to nothing. It’s not worth worrying about. Almost everything that can kill you is more likely to do so than a meteorite impact.
And, the world does have scientific efforts to track and look for large meteors that cross earth’s orbit. So, there *are* people trying to prevent the next big one.
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