What happened when NASA simulated an asteroid fragment hitting New York

May 15, 2019

A city could be destroyed by an asteroid just 50 meters in diameter. Image: Wikimedia Commons/NASA

Sinead Baker

Journalist, Business Insider

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2019. Image: Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute/YouTube

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