Learn about the most destructive and largest asteroid impacts on Earth in the past and future, from the 118.061-mile radius Vredefort Crater in South Africa to the 106-186.411-mile radius Chicxulub Crater in Mexico. Find out how these events may have caused mass extinction, volcanism, tsunamis and other natural disasters.

The previously most recent confirmed impact crater was the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, created about 49,000 to 50,000 years ago, measuring 1.2 km in diameter - slightly smaller than Yilan
A NASA study predicted the future probability that a large asteroid named "Bennu" could collide with Earth. A 2021 NASA study did indeed determine the probability of Bennu, a large asteroid
The last major asteroid impact on Earth was around 65 million years ago, when an asteroid around 6 to 9 miles (10 to 15 kilometres) wide struck the Earth in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. The resulting impact was truly apocalyptic, eventually wiping out over 75% of all life on Earth, including the dinosaurs. If such an event were to happen The asteroid had a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact equivalent to the blast yield of 400–500 kilotons of TNT (about 1.4–1.8 PJ), estimated from infrasound and seismic measurements. This was 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima . The asteroid will remain about 107,500 miles from Earth, according to the Virtual Telescope Project. Given the asteroid’s orbit right now, there is a 1 in 430 chance it will impact Earth on jj0wW. 120 334 392 333 398 207 251 374 397

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