So, That Asteroid Didn’t Kill Earth. Bonus: It Delivered Tons of Data
So, That Asteroid Didn’t Kill Earth. Bonus: It Delivered Tons of Data
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 26, 20175m 30s
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Show Notes
This week, a kilometer-wide asteroid whizzed by within about a million miles of this planet—about four and half times the distance between the Earth and the moon. A near miss? Not really. The odds of 2014 JO25 actually hitting Earth were around one in a million. The safer bet is on science. As in, how much of it astronomers were able to gather from the close pass of such a huge space rock.
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