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causing untold damage World ...wide.

An evening World News Crew, was flying over

one of the impact sites.

When they saw something moving, correspondent

Bree Walker and cameraman, William Dunne.

And Found a survivor.

A little girl, we still don't know

who she is, or what she was saying.

At this moment our Helicopter is flying her

to the mercy medical center in Casper

Wyoming, and we'll get word to you on her

condition, just as soon as we have it.

Joining me now is our

Science editor.

Doctor Carolyn Jaffe

Sandy !!....In the grip of a story like

this, It's a reporters job, to hold back.

Remain dispassionate, and yet.

When you look in the eyes of that child.

You can't help but be moved

I understand you, prepared a report,

on just how powerful.

These Meteors can be.

That's right Sandy, the philosopher

George Santayana, once said that.

"He who forgets history"...

"Is destined to repeat it"

Now the three asteroid fragments

that rained down on the earth tonight.

Ahh, , Weren't the first,

And most likely won't be the last.

The crater at Winslow Arizona, more

than Half a mile across.

An enormous hole caused by an

Iron Asteroid just 60 mt rs wide.

More than 50,000 years ago.

In 1908 an object the same size

exploded a few miles above the ground

at Tunguska river in Siberia.

The shock wave with the force of

15 Hydrogen Bombs.

Incinerated more than in acres

in an impact area.

That would have spread from Maine to The

Carolina's, if it had hit the North East.

The gulf of these were just

BB shots compared to the big one.

Known now as the KT event,

Scientists now believe and object.

In the order of 7-10 Kilometres wide,

impacted 65 million years ago.

Along the Mexican Yucatan

Peninsula.

A month after impact the debris from

the giant crater covered the Earth.

In a dust like cloud that blocked

out virtually all sunlight.

Billions of life forms were killed within

weeks, and ultimately THE DINOSAURS.

That had ruled the World for

140 million Years perished.

And Sandy!!...if an

Asteroid even one half that size

were to hit the Earth today,

the death rate could easily match.

That of of the Black Plague,

that wiped out half the population.

Of Europe during

the Middle Ages.

Well the question I've got to

put to you, is how real is the.

To the Earth today

I'm afraid its quite real.

Two years ago NASA Scientists calculated

that the odds of a person dying.

Through a near Earth Asteroid

were about 1 in 20,000.

About the same as being killed

in an airline crash.

And that's what they assumed ??

Until tonight.

You see the danger is increasing.

Why ??...ls that.

Astronomers announced at JPR, say there is a

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