asteroid impacts
Cosmic debris bombardment
Asteroid impacts are collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies.
Earth has experienced numerous impacts throughout its history, from the massive strike that likely caused the dinosaur extinction to smaller events like the Tunguska blast.
The phrase often appears in discussions of planetary defense and extinction-level threats: Scientists monitor near-Earth objects to predict potential asteroid impacts.
- meteorGlowing atmospheric space rock
- craterImpact or volcanic basin
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- dinosaursExtinct prehistoric reptiles
fireball · debris · cosmic · space · comet · destruction · ground zero · devastation · shockwave · explosion · atmosphere · burn · vaporize · tungsten · apocalypse · NEO · outer space · trajectory
- Asteroidsnear-Earth objects, Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, Juno
- cosmic historybig bang, inflation, dark ages, star formation, recombination
- sciencebiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- cosmic physicsgravity, dark energy, dark matter, black holes, gravitational waves
- paleoclimatepaleoclimate, ice age, ice ages, ice cores, ice core
- PanspermiaFrancis Crick, cosmic origins
asteroid impactsvolcanic eruptions
Explosive magma discharge from peaks
earthquakes · tsunamis · volcanic winter · tectonic activity
asteroid impactsmountain building
Geological uplift process
continental drift · erosion · plate tectonics · soil formation · planetary formation
asteroid, asteroids, asteroidal, aster, asters, astral, asterisk, asterisks, disaster