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Crash and Burn

Patrick Moore is joined by Jonathan Tate and Lembit Opik for the first of two programmes on the small fragments of space debris that are constantly bombarding the Earth.

The Earth is constantly bombarded by small fragments of space debris, but somewhere in the Solar System a sizeable asteroid or comet is probably on a collision course with Earth. We don't know where or when the impact will happen but it may prove catastrophic for life on Earth. In the first of two programmes on the subject, Patrick Moore is joined by Jonathan Tate and Lembit Opik to discuss where this threat comes from and assesses the chances of impact from a Potentially Hazardous Object.

20 minutes

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Sat 28 Jul 2001 11:25

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