Ahh, Jupiter, my old friend and garbage disposal of our solar system.
See my post on Red Dawn regarding impact opportunities.
http://cseligman.com/text/asteroids/sizedistribution.htm
With an increasing number of comets entering from outside of our solar system things are becoming risky(-ier) for life on Earth. There have been many posits for where this stuff is coming from, such as:
Our solar system is moving through a more densely-populated and original-universe portion of our galaxy, which supposedly occurs every 16 million years.
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