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The Earth would suffer little affect. The most we would get is rocks blasted from the moon and made it to Earth although they would be to small for any real damage. The moon would experience a crater in its place.

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Create a giant crater where it hit, and depending on how large it is, create a huge dust cloud that would mask the sun so no light would reach that region for some time.

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the moon will break into half or it will break into pieces (depends how the comet or asteroid's size)

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you could say Global Extinction........

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