Here’s Every Nuclear-Bomb-Scale Asteroid to Hit Earth in the Last Decade

Though dinosaur-killing impacts are rare, large asteroids routinely hit the Earth. In the visualization above, you can see the location of 26 space rocks that slammed into our planet between 2000 and 2013, each releasing the energy of our most powerful nuclear weapons.

















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