Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which on November 12 spacecraft sent Rosetta lander, with its three kilometers wide has very tiny on space standards, but pretty impressive on the earth dimensions. In particular, the Internet appeared photograph allows to compare the dimensions of the comet and the US city of Los Angeles. Someone Matt Wong using a graphical editor is given celestial body on a background of city building. Thus, anyone wishing to incorporate their imagination can imagine what degree of damage it can cause in a collision, and the extent of the damage will largely depend on the speed of impact.
It is worth noted that the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, makes a loop around the Sun in an orbit that crosses the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, approaching, but without going into orbit. With its trajectory calculations revealed that the short-period orbit of a celestial body repeatedly changed
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