comet impact
Icy body crash
A comet impact is a collision between a comet and another celestial body, such as a planet or moon.
These events release enormous energy and can cause catastrophic damage—the impact that killed the dinosaurs may have been a comet or asteroid.
Scientists study comet impacts to assess risks to Earth.
- asteroidSun-orbiting rocky mass
- meteorGlowing atmospheric space rock
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- craterImpact or volcanic basin
- ground zeroExplosion's central impact point
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- Earth history eventsice age, volcanic eruption, mass extinction, continental drift, dinosaur extinction
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate
comet impactnear miss
Narrowly averted incident
flyby · safe passage · meteor shower · gravitational slingshot
comet impactvolcanic eruption
Explosive geological discharge
comet impactplanetary formation
How worlds coalesce from debris
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