#asteroid hitting earth

Scientists have only catalogued 1% of near-Earth asteroids. At the current pace, it would take 1,000 years to find all near-Earth asteroids. New laws make asteroid mining potentially insanely lucrative. Millions of rocky objects orbit near Earth. Scientists have identified thousands of

Every day, Earth is hit with more than 100 tons of dusty, rocky material from space. Most of this debris is small enough that it burns up in the atmosphere, appearing as shooting stars. But every 10,000 years or so, an asteroid about 100 meters across crashes into our planet, destroying the area