Monday, August 15, 2011

What's the Biggest Asteroid Ever Known?

1 Ceres is approximately 580 miles (930 kilometers) across, about the size of Texas. It resides with tens of thousands of other asteroids in the main asteroid belt. If it ever hit the earth, it would be a extinction level event. Remember the asteroid the lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs was said to be 6 miles across.

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