Assertion: asteroid belt's asteroid | /r/CapableOf | strike the earth
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text: NASA officials indicate that an asteroid of any great size strikes the Earth only around one time every 1,000 centuries.
text: Some 65 million years ago an asteroid struck Earth off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
text: Many scientists think asteroids striking the Earth killed off all the dinosaurs and caused some of the other extinction events.
text: Many scientists think asteroids striking the Earth killed off all the dinosaurs and caused some of the other extinction events.
text: It was formed when a large asteroid or comet about 11 to 81 kilometers (6.8 to 50.3 miles) in diameter, known as the Chicxulub impactor, struck the Earth.
text: Many asteroids have struck the earth since it was formed 4.5 billion years ago.
text: The team's computations suggest that about 20 percent of the surviving multi-kilometer-sized fragments in the Baptistina family were lost in this fashion, with about 2 percent of those objects going on to strike the Earth, a pronounced increase in the number of large asteroids striking Earth.