Asteroids and their impact on planet earth 7 Articles

by William Prest

We live in a constantly changing weather dynamic. Sometimes we hear of huge hurricanes and super tornadoes. But these pale in comparison to the icy grip of a 100,000 year ice age or wind speeds that are clocked on worlds l...read more

by hibernianscribe

In 2029 the Earth is most likely to be struck by the 2004 discovered MN-4 asteroid, a 400 metre diameter piece of rock orbiting around the Sun. The chance of the planet being totally destroyed stands at one in 45. At prese...read more

by Dan Schlueter

The Ultimate Human Nemesis: Near Earth Asteroids The average persons knowledge of a near-Earth asteroid comes from movies such as Armageddon or Deep Impact if they are even aware of such a thing. Usually in the H...read more

by Cyrus Dehkan

We've always known in the back of our heads, that asteroid impact on earth has happened in the past. After all the extinction of the dinosaurs most likely occurred when a large asteroid fell into the Yucatan peninsula, cha...read more

by Caroline Deveraux

Who Rules The Earth? The Planets or Mankind? The Planets Fighting Back Do we seriously think we could win? This is not even a chicken and egg situation, where mankind could argue that we were on Planet Earth first...read more

by Katherine Sims

Between the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ) and the outer planets ( Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto ) lies a belt of about 40,000 much smaller and irregular planets known as asteroids. The largest ...read more

by Alden Gustafson

Is life possible on an asteroid? The thing I am trying to "convince" the reader of is to store food in preparation for such a possibility. We were required to use a number of outside sources, and refute at least three ob...read more