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Because the objects came close to Earth — anywhere from 373 to 4,970 miles...
...If Bonilla's observations were correct, then the Earth could have seen "3,275 Tunguska events in two days," says one of the new study's authors — "probably an extinction event." Holy shit. Here's the arXiv.org article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798 Why is the PDF is a Comic Sans kind of font?
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I don't find that the font, Comic Sans, or otherwise, diminishes the holy-shit factor by even the tinest amount, really. I'm not sure that even kittens could sugarcoat a near miss of this magnitude.
Well ok. Maybe really cute ones. "Awwwww, lookit cute kitty, with soft cuddly news about how close the planet came to getting fucking sterilized" Nope, that don't work either!