Asteroid Hits Earth! How the Doomsday Scenario Would Play Out - TIME

Space is an exceedingly random place. Everything in the known universe may be governed by some pretty hard laws of physics, but so are BBs in a jar when you shake them up and down. That doesn’t stop things from getting very chaotic inside. The same extreme arbitrariness is worth keeping in mind as we contemplate our planet’s close brush with an asteroid this week. - Asteroid Hits Earth! How the Doomsday Scenario Would Play Out