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Finding asteroids before they find us

Recode Daily

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Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Scientists are constantly searching for asteroids that could crash into Earth. But if they find one, will they be able to do anything about it? NASA has launched a spaceship that will slam into an asteroid to find out. For more from Unexplainable, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable This episode of Unexplainable was reported by Brian Resnick and produced by Mandy Nguyen. Editing by Katherine Wells, Meradith Hoddinott, and Noam Hassenfeld, who also did the scoring for this episode. Richard Sima checked the facts and Cristian Ayala was on mixing and sound design. Mixing for Recode Daily was by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions). Support Unexplainable and Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estes. Today, you'll be hanging out with our friends from

0:43.2

the unexplainable podcast. And let's just say if you've ever wondered what we would do if an

0:49.2

asteroid were on a collision course with Earth, you're about to get some answers.

0:56.0

Hollywood's got a long tradition of making movies about huge stuff crashing into Earth.

1:01.8

There's Armageddon. You want to send these boys into space fun? Sure they'll make good astronauts.

1:07.4

They don't know jack about drilling. There's deep impact. We get hit all the time by rocks and

1:13.8

meteors, but the comment we discovered is the size of New York City. And there's the most

1:18.8

recent entry to the canon. Don't look up. You cannot go around saying to people that there's

1:23.6

a hundred percent chance that they're going to die. It's nuts. But this kind of thing isn't

1:30.8

just relegated to science fiction. Our science editor Brian Resnick says this is a problem

1:35.6

that scientists and even government officials have been taking seriously for decades.

1:44.0

Congress actually got this huge wake-up call when it comes to celestial objects smashing into

1:50.0

planets. This was in 1994 and this was the year scientists actually witnessed a comet heading

1:56.0

straight for Jupiter. Amateur astronomers all over the world are craning their next up to the

2:01.7

heavens to see a collision of a disintegrating comet with the planet Jupiter. For the first time

2:08.2

astronomers could actually look and see what happens when one of these like giant

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