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Argumentative Essay On Asteroids

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Have you ever seen a meteor shower in action? If so, you probably just remember them as trickles of light in the night sky. As for others, well...the debris behind these streaks of light, meteoroids, are impending doom.
Asteroids are normally portrayed as the compacted piles of rubble bringing forth the catastrophic commencement of the apocalypse in films like **Ice, **Meteor Storm, **Armageddon, etc.
After all, there are a couple of theories to how one of the earliest global disasters had occurred; **the mass extinction of prehistoric animals, and an asteroid or comet crash being one of the most popular among these theories. This concept is still debated, as it was previously believed that volcanic activity was the only factor contributing to the temperature changes in the atmosphere. Although, there is still an idea where there wasn’t just one cause killing off an era of species, but different environmental factors combined. …show more content…

**In February of 2013, a small meteoroid, **less than 20 metres in size, had exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The airburst resulted in significant damage to the buildings within proximity and **injured over 1000 civilians.
** This meteor has 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima in World War 2, which had the energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT. Luckily the atmosphere absorbed most of the energy the meteor in Chelyabinsk had.
If a meteoroid that diminutive could have such a strong impact, what of those that are within our solar system and are remarkably larger? Or could a cluster of these smaller meteoroids appearing in the form of meteor showers stand as a possible

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