What are the odds of a big asteroid hitting the earth in the next 100 years?
Just how big do you consider big? Big enough to wipe a small city off the map? Or possibly big enough to collapse the global ecosystem and cause a mass extinction, humans included? There are currently 874 near earth asteroids considered to be potentially dangerous, known to cross orbits with the earth or in orbits close enough that they need to be monitored. These are just the ones we know about, the list is being added to constantly as we find them. None of these looks to be headed in our direction anytime soon, but a couple are going to make pretty close passes in the next century. Generally the odds of a truly big one hitting is estimated to be one hit every few hundred thousand years. Basic answer… The likelihood of getting hit by something big in the next century is quite small. Read on! The odds of getting hit by something sm
