Astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt
Astrobitica
December 9, 2024 (Last updated: December 9, 2024) 1 minute read
The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That’s about as wide as Brooklyn. Such a massive impactor is predicted to hit Earth rarely, once every 100 million to 500 million years.