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General Category => Matters of Life and The Universe => Topic started by: Zzzptm on August 10, 2021, 08:52:00 AM

Title: Planet-Smashing Asteroid Events Much More Frequent
Post by: Zzzptm on August 10, 2021, 08:52:00 AM

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103521002840?via%3Dihub

Short version: Instead of hitting every 2.5 billion years, the kind of asteroid that triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event is now calculated to hit the Earth once every 250 million years.

So there goes all my vacation plans for my 500 millionth wedding anniversary... bummer... I was planning something really special, like a diving trip where California used to be or something cool like that.