Fireballs from Space

  • Run time: 60 min
  • Premiere: 2010. April 6.

    Hundreds of tons of space debris most of it microscopic size particles-- falls to earth every single day! But a fireball the size of a football field can land here too. An impact 65 million years ago appears to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs. Now the idea that our planet orbits in a shooting gallery of comets and asteroids is getting serious attention.

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