Don’t look up: is an asteroid heading for Earth? – podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Fin from Science | The Guardian on (#6V6V0)
In a case of life imitating art, a 100-metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time, after telescope observations revealed it had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. To find out what happens now and how worried we should be, Ian Sample hears from Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at MIT and inventor of the Torino scale, which is used to categorise the threat posed by objects such as asteroids and comets
Clips: BBC News, NBC News
Asteroid's chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher - but don't panic
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