{"id":89,"date":"2008-09-01T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elearnca.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-11-17T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T15:21:53","slug":"earth-impact-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elearnca.com\/blog\/earth-impact-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth impact hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td scope=\"col\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Simulated Meteor Crash<\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">By\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/blogs\/author\/tmoideen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tasha Moideen<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An ominous simulation of the effects of a large meteor crash featured on the Discovery Channel program, Miracle Planet, depicts our blue planet being transformed into a glowing, fiery ball of death and destruction.\u00a0 See also Britannica\u2019s entry \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/1077800\/Earth-impact-hazard#tab=active~checked%2Citems~checked&amp;title=Earth%20impact%20hazard%20--%20Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earth impact hazard<\/a>.\u201d<object width=\"425\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yYgEwXWilUc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yYgEwXWilUc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object>The danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies whose orbits around the Sun carry them near Earth. These objects include the rocky asteroids and their larger fragments and the icy nuclei of comets.<br \/>\nSpace in the vicinity of Earth contains a great number of solid objects in a range of sizes. The tiniest (millimetre-size and smaller) and by far most abundant ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/td>\n<td scope=\"col\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simulated Meteor Crash By\u00a0 Tasha Moideen An ominous simulation of the effects of a large meteor crash featured on the Discovery Channel program, Miracle Planet, depicts our blue planet being transformed into a glowing, fiery ball of death and destruction.\u00a0 See also Britannica\u2019s entry \u201cEarth impact hazard.\u201dThe danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies 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