BBC The Sky at Night - Asteroid Strike (2025)
HDTV | 1920x1080 | .MKV/AVC @ 3294 Kbps | 29 min 23 s | 721 MiB
Audio: English AAC 136 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
The team explore one of the biggest stories in space news, the 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4. First observed on 27 December 2024, it soon became one of the biggest threats from an asteroid ever detected, with the potential to cause a heat blast that could vaporise solid rock, wind blasts five times the speed of the strongest hurricane and a shockwave that would flatten buildings and trees for hundreds of miles. This was a potential natural disaster we needed to respond to as a planet. So how well did we do? Our team of presenters are on hand to find out, and while YR4 was later downgraded to a near miss, what has it told us about our ability to react when an asteroid strike is on its way?