How likely is it for Earth to be hit by an Asteroid?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How do Asteroids form? How much damage can Asteroids do to planets? Where can you find the most Asteroids in the Galaxy? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	Pse, Smarty Pants, hear that?
0:05.2	That could be the opening stumps and claps from the rock song We Will Rock You by the
0:09.3	Rock Band Queen.
0:10.1	Or it could be the sound of rocks from space smashing into Earth.
0:15.3	What?
0:16.3	That's right.
0:17.3	There are literally millions of giant, irregularly shaped rocks swirling around our solar
0:22.0	system.
0:23.0	And every so often, an object will break free and...
0:25.6	We will, we will get rocked by you.
0:33.2	These rocks, known as asteroids, hit Earth all the time.
0:37.1	Sometimes it's hardly noticeable. Sometimes it causes
0:39.4	a sonic blast powerful enough to shatter windows and injure people like the asteroid strike in Russia
0:46.1	in 2013. And sometimes it completely changes the planet, wiping out entire species like the
0:52.3	asteroid that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct 65 million years ago.
0:56.6	Nobody dino saw that coming.
1:00.3	But what are asteroids, and where do they come from?
1:03.6	What causes them to break free of their orbit and attack Earth?
1:07.0	And could what happened to the dinosaurs happen again?
1:13.0	It's time for another whiff of science on.
1:15.3	Who smarted?
1:18.0	Who's smarted?
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