Flipside 58 Top shots
9. Death from above
If a football-pitch sized comet hit the Earth we’d go the way of the dinosaurs. Comet Elenin is 4km wide, and it’s due to buzz our space this month. Comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, at 1.6km wide whistled past us last month. So how come these comets always seem to miss their target? Because we’re a small planet 14,000km wide, in the vast expanses of space,’ say the experts
