• Question: Is there a meteor coming towards Earth?

    Asked by to Juan on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Hey zaynfan

      Well, not that we know right now. There could be one, but the universe is so vast that we just cannot tell with exactitude. But don’t get alarmed, if there was to be one, we will be able to detect it 🙂 Or at least, if it is big enough to cause any major damage to the Earth.

      By the way, did you know that every day our planet is being hit by meteors? They are just very small (from dust to meteors the size of fridges) and they burn when they go through the atmosphere. That is why we have shooting stars…they are not stars, but meteorites burning as they go through our atmosphere

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