31 Jan 2025

The big asteroid coming our way

From Afternoons, 1:45 pm on 31 January 2025

An automated telescope in Chile has spotted a 100 metre-wide asteroid that scientists say could collide with Earth in the year 2032. The possibility, they say, is 1.3%. 

Still, that's enough to have triggered global planetary defense procedures. 

To explain some of this in a way we can understand, Jesse is joined by Professor Richard Easther. He's a leading cosmologist and lectures in physics at the University of Auckland.