If there was an impact event on Earth, how would this influence the evolution of life on Earth?

Impacts play a primary role in the current state and long-term evolution on a planet. This relationship is more significant on Earth because we live here. The evolution of life is significantly altered by these impact events. In the 1990s, a comet called Shoemaker Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This was a major event and occurred very close to home. If the comet had hit Earth, we would all be extinct. It is important to note that this is the only impact event that the whole human civilization has ever seen. However, the dinosaurs were affected by an impact event much like this one. At that time, mammals lived alongside dinosaurs. The removal of the predator dinosaur allowed for the evolution of the mammals, which eventually evolved into humans. If that impact event would never have occurred, the human race may not have evolved to the current state.For this discussion, be creative and consider the following: If there was an impact event on Earth, how would this influence the evolution of life on Earth?RESOURCES BELOWSmall Solar System BodiesThe creation of the Sun and planets almost entirely absorbed the original solar nebula; however, there was still a lot of remaining matter. This remaining matter become the dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. It is not surprising that some of them careen into the inner solar system and impact terrestrial planets such as Earth.Archeologists have determined that large asteroids and comets have impacted Earth numerous times in the past and have altered Earth’s environment. As a result, many plant and animal species have gone extinct, which changes the evolutionary processes occurring on the planet. One example of this is the mass extinction of most dinosaurs, which is attributed to such an impact that occurred 65 million years ago.Use the Astronomy ebook to start your investigation into impact events and their origin:Chapter 7, “Composition and Structure of Planets,” section 7.2.Chapter 13, “Comets and Asteroids: Debris of the Solar System,” sections 13.1–13.4.Chapter 14, “Cosmic Samples and the Origin of the Solar System,” sections 14.1–14.5.View the following:James Web Space Telescope. (JWSTS). (2010). Planetary formation: James Webb space telescope science [Video]. | Transcript. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2d7joOgVLgNASA STI Program. (2012). Comet impact tape 3 [Video]. | Transcript. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-tUP8afEIoThe New Horizons space probe made history in its encounter with Pluto, as it was the one and only spacecraft ever to visit the tiny planet. NASA was not content to stop there, and after its Pluto meet and greet, New Horizons was directed to go even deeper into the outer parts of the solar system. It is this area called the Kuiper Belt where a vast majority of asteroids spend their time. The first object that New Horizons was aimed toward was an asteroid called Ultima Thule. Watch the following NASA video, which contains the actual imagery of that object. The video provides an up close look at an asteroid in its natural habitat, which you can use as a visual aid in your research to see what such an object looks like.VideoFromSpace. (2019). “Very red” Ultima Thule – New Horizons team releases 1st science results [Video]. | Transcript. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAvgO5Y_Og