Witness The Day The Asteroid Struck In Jaw-Dropping Virtual Reality! (360 Video)

AsteroidDay | Friday, June 30 Witness the extraordinary journey of the meteor that caused the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, in an immersive VR experience that will leave you...

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At the beginning of the 20th century, anasteroid the size of the White House wasmoving past Earth on its way to nowherein particular. But as it had done forbillions of years, with a billion otherspace rocks, our earth reached out andbegan pulling it toward us. Best guessesput that asteroid at between 30 and 50meters across. If you had to walk all theway around it it would have taken youabout eight minutes. For months, itcontinued toward us, gaining speed. By thetime it hit our atmospherem it was doingat least 40,000 kilometers per hour... butprobably a lot more. At that speed andsize, it pierced our atmosphere. It wasmoving so fast that the air became animpenetrable wall. The massive meteorsmashed into this wall of air andexploded like a hydrogen bomb. Imaginewhat that w...