impacts

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Concentrations of larger bodies -- similar in size to the Chelyabinsk or Tunguska impactors -- could potentially be observed during those windows.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2025

Sabina Raducan, a planetary scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, cautioned, though, that care must be taken if kinetic impactors ever need to be used on smaller rubble piles.

From Salon • May 16, 2024

A human so impactful that the impacted started impacting future impactors.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

“You can’t tilt Saturn over that much with the size of impactors that are believed to have been present.”

From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2022

Thanks to the Chelyabinsk event and other dramatic close encounters with impactors, “planetary defense itself has also undergone a real sea change,” Rivkin says.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021