Page 75 - The Day of Judgment

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 73

Each year, many fragments of debris hit our planet, but most of
them are so small that they burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere,
unnoticed by us. However, some of this material is larger than what
the atmosphere can handle.
Geologist Walter Alvarez lists the probable events of a comet
(shooting star) entering Earth's atmosphere in his book T-Rex and the
Crater of Doom where he describes the world 65 million years ago:
Doom was coming out of the sky, in the form of an enormous comet or
asteroid—we are still not sure which it was. Probably ten kilometers
across, traveling tens of kilometers a second, its energy of motion had
the destructive capability of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. If an
asteroid, it was an inert, crater-scarred rock, dark and sinister, invisible
until the last moment before it struck. If a comet, it was a ball of dirty
ice, spewing out gases boiled off by the heat of the Sun, and it
announced impending doom with a shimmering head and a brilliant tail
splashed across half the sky, illuminating the night, and finally visible
even in the daytime as Armageddon approached. 26

Scientists believe that a very large celestial body (most probably
a comet) collided with Earth 65 million years ago and marked it
considerably. Based on this experience and subsequent collisions, it
is possible to predict the events following such an impact and the
probable consequences for our planet.
The potential energy of a comet before impact is equivalent to
100 billion megatons of TNT, which will cause it to evaporate in
seconds and can leave a crater 40 kms (25 miles) deep. In
comparison, a hydrogen bomb has the force of 1 megaton of TNT.
At the height of the cold war, there were 10,000 such weapons. On
the other hand, a comet's potential force is 10 million times greater
than the force of all of the explosives that existed at that time.
The Qur'an reveals that on the Day of Judgment there will be