Why a Single Asteroid Could Be More Powerful Than Every Nuke in History

A single 200-million-ton rock contains more energy than every nuclear weapon on Earth combined. In this investigation, we explore the "celestial shooting range" we call home and visit Arizona’s Meteor Crater as well as the hidden Manson impact site to reveal how a mile-wide asteroid strikes with the force of 100 million megatons of TNT.

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