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Originally Posted by fokakya
But at the same time, the small ones pose no real threat to our ecosystem and are therefore not worth fretting about. If they don't completely burn up in the atmosphere, they aren't large enough when they hit the ground to do any major damage. Might destroy a house if they hit one directly but that's about it. I'm talking up to the size of a small car.
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Oh, I was talking about a meteor from 1/2 to 1 km across. They think that was the size of the one that hit the yucatan peninsula and wiped out the dinosaurs.
The one in the video was hundreds of km's across.