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Sufficiently large to do what?


Destroy life on earth. I phrased it as a tautology to be humorous, but very large impacts are possible. I doubt life would survive an impact such as the one we hypothesized to have created the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis

"collision between the Earth and an astronomical body the size of Mars"




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