Multiple Choice
Cratering evidence throughout the Solar System indicates that the frequency of asteroid impact is inversely proportional to the cube of the diameter of the asteroid (that is, 1/D3) .The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was around 20 meters in diameter and impacts of this size are expected once every 60 years, on average.If the Tunguska impact was a meteor around 100 meters in diameter, what is the expected average time between impacts of that size?
A) 1 every 220,000 years
B) 1 every 7,500 years
C) 1 every 1,200 years
D) 1 every 180 years
E) 1 every 0.5 year (2 a year)
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