Ep. 623: NEOs: Concern or Nah
Astronomy Cast
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How Many Asteroid Impacts Are There?
The chances of a large asteroid striking the earth and causing some kind of destruction are one in 100,000. It occurs roughly every 200 million years but it's not like there are only large asteroids out there. The more stuff we build, the more things they're going to get hit. And then you can also go like, a billion years and be fine. Probably not going to happen.
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