Asteroids

Asteroids are basiclly just giagantic rocks in space. They are basicly dust, metal, and rock that travel at very fast speeds. They can be huge but if an astroid is an astroid then it is too small to be called a planet, so they are actually mini planets. Thousands of astoids hit the earth every day, but before they can actaully make contact they burn up in the atmosphere. There is a thoery that an astroid wiped out the dinosaurs, a great a mighty race, but the truth is that the astroid which indeed did hit the dinosaurs just hit at a very low point in their exsitence thus wiping the out. There a gigantic craters in the earth that have been made by astroids hitting the earth, some of them are as big as 300 km in diameter. Truth is that earth has been hit by asteroids multiple times, and sometime by thpusands of astroids at the same time, thats because sometimes the asteroid belt in our solar system located between mars and jupiter, it is 370 million miles long, and the main belts are called Gaspra and Ida. We can prove that a lot of asteroids have hit at the same time becaue once every couple millions of years the asteroid belt loses a lot of asteroid that go everywhere, and you can tell this is true because if you look at the moon it has thousands of craters created by asteroids. If a big asteroid did hit earth it would be catastrophic, because not only would it wipe out 1/2 of the population right away but it would throw our planet into another ice age. Lets say that an asteroid was going to hit earth we would know even a 100 years in advance the exact day of the end of humanity, as it would come in it would be so hot (they travel at maybe 100 miles per second) that the fire would be, not red, not blue, not green, but purple, and if you were close enough that your eyes would be able to see it, you would disintegrate right away from the intense heat. But luckly for us, we wont have an asteroid hit us for a lot of generations to come. But if there would be an asteroid coming within the next one hundred years we might actually have the technology to send it away, but if it was a comet we would have no chance.