What Were The Biggest Asteroids To Hit Earth? Where Asteroids Struck The Moon

where asteroids struck the moon

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April 16, 2020

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where asteroids struck the moon

Impact Craters on Earth, Moon and other planets provide evidence that the Earth has been struck by asteroids since it formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. Once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten life on Earth comes along.

VIDEO CREDITS:

VIDEO

AMNH/J. Bauerle

VISUALIZATIONS

“Cosmic Collisions” by AMNH/Denver Museum of Nature & Science/GOTO, Inc. Tokyo, Japan/Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China

AMNH/Department of Exhibition

NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

PHOTOGRAPHY

AMNH/D. Finnin

AMNH/S. Thurston

NASA

TTÜ/Gennadi Baranov

Cardiff University/Ian McMillan

United States National Park Service

Wikimedia Commons/wilson44691

MUSIC

“Scrape the Sky” by Ben Worley and Matt Morris/

Warner Chappell Production Music

COSMIC COLLISIONS

Cosmic Collisions was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science; GOTO, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; and the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China.

Made possible through the generous support of CIT.

Cosmic Collisions was developed by the American Museum of Natural History with the major support and partnership of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Science Mission Directorate, Heliophysics Division, grant number NNG04GC18G.

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