Earth may have narrowly avoided a devastating comet impact 1,600 years ago
Earth may have narrowly avoided a devastating comet impact 1,600 years ago The near-miss wasn’t without casualties though When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Earth may have had a near-miss encounter with a comet nearly 2,000 years ago that would have devastated the planet, if its debris is anything to go by. Between 252 and 383 CE, 69 near-Earth comets were recorded by Chinese astronomers, and researchers at the University of Cincinnati found evidence that one of these comets came close enough to Earth that debris from the comet exploded in the atmosphere over the Ohio River Valley region of North America....