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30E-42-Astronauts Reveal Sobering Data on Asteroid Impacts
30E-42-Astronauts Reveal Sobering Data on Asteroid Impacts
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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
On Earth Day Astronauts Dr. Ed Lu, Tom Jones, and Bill Anders announced that between 2000 and 2013, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Network detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons of TNT. None of them were caused by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts. Most of these asteroids exploded high in the atmosphere and did no damage on the ground. These data provide a measure of the frequency at which large space rocks enter our atmosphere.
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
89-Witnessing An Asteroid Impact: What would it be like to witness an asteroid impact similar to what happened at Tunguska, Russia in 1908. by Travelers In The Night