Six times Earth has nearly been wiped out by giant asteroids
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It is believed to be the impact site of the asteroid or meteor that hit Earth and wiped out around 75 percent of all its living creatures at the time, including the dinosaurs.Popigai, Russia A crater believed to be caused by an asteroid slamming into northern Siberia in Russia some 35 million years ago also triggered a wave of mass extinction on the planet, known as the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event.
This extinction mainly affected marine and aquatic animals. Bonilla Observation, MexicoA more recent example of when our planet was almost destroyed by a flying space body can be found in the notes of 19th-century Mexican astronomer José Bonilla, who in 1883 spotted more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing in front of the sun.
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