The sound and fury of a

and theory of a city.

The sound and fury of a 10 meter meteor exploding over a city of 1.1 million.

Welcome to planetary radio where it may seem like we've been asteroid radio for the last few weeks. Can you blame us? What with

one rock shattering windows in Russia followed hours later by a much bigger rock

that missed our world by a cosmic whisker.

We'll pick up the stories with Emily Lock to Wall in a moment.

Bill Nye has best heard this week on the webcast we produced

as Asteroid 2012 DA14 was whizzing by. We'll tell you how to catch the on-demand

version of that show in a minute. I'm also very proud to welcome back the

president and chief asteroid miner of planetary Resources, Chris Lewicki.

Emily, it really did seem like the sky is falling.

Yeah, it's funny.

The best joke that I saw last week was that Asteroids are like buses.

There's no one for forever.

Then suddenly there's two

it was. I love that I hadn't heard that. I did hear somebody call it a

cosmic coincidence which sure seems like an apt description. It was a major

coincidence and that one's really hard to

explain. It's a and it's a major coincidence that the other biggest one we've

ever known of was also in Russia. Russia is a big country so that's not maybe all that

surprising. Yeah you could see though they might think they're being unfairly picked on every hundred years or so.

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