It is amazing, but all coincidence. Keep in mind, there are always objects either passing by, or burning up in our atmosphere. The moon doesn't have an atomosphere - hence the craters.If that is true then it is quite an amazing coincidence. Not saying it couldn't be, but it doesn't seem very plausable. Further, if thats what a one meter asteroid can do, imagine the destructive force that would be associated with the one about to fly by. Makes you feel really insignificant in the scheme of the universe.
The one that is flying by, if it hit, would be the equivalent of a 2.5 megaton bomb. We're hit by one about once every 1200 years. The last one that hit was in 1908 - also in Russia. While (I don't believe) it left a crater, it did flatten 830 acres of trees. Pretty impressive.
I'm still holding out hope for the little green men. Or a zombie apacolypse.
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