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Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, the largest comet ever discovered, has a nucleus that’s approximately 119 kilometers across. If such an object were to strike Earth, the energy imparted to our planet would be thousands to ten thousand times as energetic as the K-Pg impactor that occurred 65 million years ago. (Credit: NASA/Don Davis)