Space: Flying Visits | A roller-coaster ride through the solar system
Space: Flying Visits | Staying Alive
The perilous orbits of planet Earth.
CHANNEL | BBC Four
FIRST BROADCAST | 22 July 2005
DURATION | 8 minutes 56 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
2005
Synopsis
Although the Earth feels pretty safe to us, the cratered surface of the Moon shows all too clearly the destructive power of the asteroids and comets that hurtle through space. Often missing the Earth by a cosmic whisper but capable of causing massive devastation, the threat of the rogue meteor is one we ignore at our peril.
The facts in this programme were correct at the time of first broadcast.
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