No one knows exactly how life on Earth will end, But scientists claim that a collision with Mercury or Mars could destroy our planate long before the Sun bakes it to a crisp in five billion years times.
The different studies suggest that the solam system’s planets will continue to orbit the Sun stably for at least 40 million years. But after that, there’s a chance that Mercury’s orbit will get out of whack in the next five billion years.
The studies claim that their would be tend to destabilise the hole inner solar system and could lead to a catastrophic collision between Earth and either Mercury or Mars.
Marcury and Mars tend to get thrown around the most when the solar system destabilises, because at 6% snd 11% of Earth’s mass respectively, they are relatively easy to move.
" In the event of such a collision, Earth heated to thousands of degrees by the impact, with an ocean of lava covering its surface. A future replay of that event would be disastrous," Laughlin was quoted as saying.
The studies have been pubished in the ‘ Astrophysical Journal’.
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