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Do you believe that a meteoroid will crash into the earth and destroy the earth in the year 2001?

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Why would it happen in 2001 and not some other year? It's about equally likely to happen any time, right? In any case, a meteor's not going to destroy the earth, although there's some probability that a large asteroid could destroy all the life on the earth - but it would have to be a pretty large one. More lik ely, the next meteoric disaster we'll see will be a relatively small meteor hitting some relatively highly-populated area, but the damage will not really be likely to be very extensive.

A Smith


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