Somebody needs to tell Clark Chapman that an asteroid
or comet impacted at Rio Cuarto, and that this was
just one of a number of fatal impacts which occured
within recorded human history. My old list of fatal
impacts may be found in the meteorite list archives,
and some additions to this list
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Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage.
http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/
If the odds of dying of an
asteroid
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If the odds of dying of an asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, wouldn't
that mean that 12,500 people (out of the USA's 250,000,000) figure to die
that way?
There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it?
There is nothing wrong with it, but you have to be aware you're
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As stated in the article, the odds are 1 in 20,000.
But the odds of any one person being killed by a comet are astronomically different (no pun intended) than the odds of a comet striking the Earth within the next million years. Depends on exactly what event is being considered.
Gregory
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