Six months of warning. One night of impact. A year of aftermath, told only through the news.
It starts as a one-in-three-thousand chance that astronomers expect to vanish. Instead the odds keep climbing, past every record, until the red band on the map shrinks to a strip of Oklahoma prairie. This is a simulation of an Apophis-size asteroid impact, built on a published impact model and NASA’s own six-month warning exercise, told the way you would actually live it: one dated news bulletin at a time.
0:00 Cold open
0:31 The discovery
3:12 The odds climb
9:19 Impact night
12:03 The aftermath
16:41 One year later
18:42 The last bulletin
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What’s real: the blast, heat, crater and quake follow the Earth Impact Effects Program (Collins, Melosh & Marcus); the warning thresholds, Torino scale and the six-month timeline follow NASA and ESA planetary defense exercises. What’s fiction: asteroid 2034 DK, the dates, every person and every radio call. The real Apophis has been ruled out for at least 100 years.
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