Asteroids have been hitting our earth for around Four Billion years. Most famously, the Chicxulub Asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and transformed life on this planet. On 15 february 2013, a 10,000 Ton Asteroid entered the atmosphere over the russian city of chelyabinsk. It exploded with 30 times the energy of an atomic bomb, injuring 1,600 people. And we didnt see it coming. Professor Alan Fitzsimmons is an expert in the Observation And Measurement of asteroids. Hes one of the scientists trying to make sure we dont miss the next big impact. Now, i want to start with some jargon busting, because theres a lot of stuff out there. Theres asteroids, theres comets. Can you take us through that . Sure. Asteroids, like good Old Bennu here, are objects, rocky objects that orbit the sun. We also have comets, of course. Comets have a lot of ice in them. Now, if that asteroid enters the earths atmosphere, then we see it glowing as a Meteor Or Shooting star. If they make it to the ground, that is
And its allies try to prevent a strike on israel with the Cia Director heading to the region. Is there anything that can stop the conflict . And Joe Biden races the clock to cement his Health Care legacy. His now Announcement Today for his cancer moon shot. Our msnbc reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbcs Dasha Burns on the much talked about discussion between donald Trump And Elon musk. So the Trump Campaign said this would be the interview of the century. What did we actually hear . Well, chris, it sounded a lot like some of former president trumps rallies. They typically run about 90 minutes though this was over two hours with Elon Musk who didnt get too much of a word in there. It was a lot of the same Talking Points going after President Biden, again, falsely claiming that harris staged a coup against President Biden and attacking harris on her record and also getting a little bit personal as weve seen him do recently. Take a listen. Kamala w
Hey [ Crowd Chanting ] well, you might have seen a few people showed up in philadelphia the other night. Then 10,000 plus walked into a field in western wisconsin. And then, on wednesday, the largest crowd of the campaign showed up in detroit, michigan. But arizona just couldnt leave it alone, could ya . [ applause ] wow. You know, its not as if anybody cares about Crowd Sizes or anything. Whew, okay. Vice president ial nominee Tim Walz poking the bear just a little bit during his rally with Vice President Kamala Harris on friday. Weve seen thousands of supporters show up for the new democratic ticket since their debut Last Tuesday in philadelphia. Wow, what a difference a week or so makes. Look at those numbers. Mika, i mean i cant. Look at the numbers. The philadelphia event, when it first came out, seems like two weeks ago, doesnt it . Yeah. So huge. Wisconsin seemed to be even bigger. Detroit was mammoth. Then glendale, reports of 15,000 people there, more than Barack Obama had in
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News for Team Gb, another medal. Great britain have just secured their first medal of the day, and Sky Brown has matched the bronze that she won in the Park Skateboarding three years ago in tokyo. She won bronze there and she has now matched to that. Skateboarding a high Qualifying Field with the fourth highest score of the final. She was out of the medals after her first run, up to bronze after her second and this was a brilliant final run to get her into the Silver Medal Position an incredible performance considering that she dislocated her shoudlerjust over a week ago. But, she had a nervous wait with four other competitors still to go. Japans Cocona Hiraki bettered her score, to push her down to third. 14 year old australian Arisa Trew took gold. At the Diving Andrea Spendolini Siriex Couldnt add an individual medal to her bronze in the 10 metre platform syncro. She could only finish sixth in the final after a poor second Round Dive saw her playing catch up. The Gold And Silver wen