The Asteroid Hunter
7/1/202634 min
In 1994, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that we should be monitoring asteroids and comets near Earth. Today, that’s David Rankin’s job.
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In 1993, astronomers discovered something orbiting Jupiter. It was a comet that had been broken into many pieces by Jupiter's gravity. Some scientists described it looking like a string of pearls. [gentle music] It didn't take long for them to realize