Video: World Asteroid Day – is that large piece of gravel actually a meteorite?
By Helen Andrews and Ross Crae
June 30, 2016, 12:01 amUpdated: June 30, 2016, 9:51 am
World Asteroid Day (NASA)
Each year, people around the world come together to learn about asteroids today, 30th June, on the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history; the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia.
The Sunday Post spoke to Dr Benjamin Cohen from The University of Glasgow about what asteroids are and how to tell if a piece of stone in your back garden is actually a rock from space!
Dr Cohen is a a post-doctoral research associate at the university’s School of Geographical & Earth Sciences and he also works at SUERC (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre).
Watch what he had to say here:
World Asteroid Day
Learn about asteroids from University of Glasgow scientist, Dr Benjamin Cohen
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