The above image is of a comet which is placed over the city of Los Angeles for the sake of a dimensional comparison. While it has no chance of impacting Earth, the point of this image is to provide a sense of what another possible comet, or asteroid, could be in the way of size and having - albeit remote - of hitting the surface of the planet as one did 6.5 million years ago on the northwestern portion of the Yucatan Peninsula and a portion of the Gulf of Mexico which is believed to be the cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
So, to answer the question of the title, the answer is yes, but let's hope not while we're alive. Although, if one did, we wouldn't be for long at all; especially depending on which area of the globe the impact occurred.
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