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I've always figured if we were in the crosshairs of an incoming asteroid, we'd be goners. I've learned that I was kind of wrong. A simulation allows us to find out what would really happen if an asteroid were to hit Quincy, Illinois.

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

According to a book called “ The Ends of the World” that was written by an award-winning science journalist named Peter Brannen, dinosaurs may have beat humans to the moon – or at least their bones may have. An excerpt of Brannen’s book was recently shared on Twitter by a blogger named Matt Austin. We all know that the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Earth about 66 million years ago was incredibly massive, but was it powerful enough to send pieces of the dinosaurs into space? ...

Physics get paid to do. is there a way. people in america sitting here, hearing about the billions of particles out there and the relatively undeveloped ability to protect them beforehand, is there anything people are working on? is there something outside of nasa? >> well, i think the major program right now is nasas program and what theyre concentrating on, what they call the earth killer asteroids that are sort of two-thirds after mile in diameter. >> the earth killer asteroids. >> yes, it do...

A california company is building a nationwide network of fortified underground shelters, all with the comfort and amenities of a luxury cruise ship. trace gallagher has that story in the west coast newsroom. i was a kid in the 70s, we had to do those in the 70s. >> reporter: we did, too, the 60s and 70s, we did them too. but you know that time square you were thinking about? im going to get you a smoking deal for like $125,000. this company, by the way, is called ziebel shelters network and they...

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