Impact Events

sci:astro:impact_events

Comets and asteroids do strike the Earth: the Tunguska blast flattened a Siberian forest in 1908, Meteor Crater scars Arizona, and the Chicxulub impact ended the age of the dinosaurs. The dread the comet carried as an omen of doom had, at bottom, a real ground — fire does sometimes fall from the sky. — earth science