TOP 15 BIGGEST Asteroid Impacts in History

The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, wasn't the only large scale impact in history. Today we'll take a look at some of the biggest asteroid impacts in Earth history!

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[hansudowolfrahm]

The 15 biggest impacts on earth.... In random order 😂

[JohnSmith-iipp]

It's hard to believe you missed the one from 11, 500 years ago. That one changed everything.

[williamkirby]

It's mentioned that some of the big asteroids that struck around 2 billion years ago must have had a devastating effect on life. But the only living things around were primitive multi-cellular organisms whose hardiness would allow a quick recovery. Complex life forms didn't arrive until the Cambrian Explosion.

[Giles_Heaton]

I wonder how they persuaded Charlie Sheen to narrate this. D's & W's? 🤣

[heikkijhautanen]

The universe keeps hiting mother earth but she still keeps spining, what a tough gal our mother is!!

[Carlitosway]

Wow that was pretty interesting! I never knew about more than half of those impact craters

[JCAH]

Is there a reason the massive Greenland crater was not included? I agree with comments below, that listing the craters either in chronological order, or in order of size, would have been helpful.

[hareecionelson]

I had no idea that the Chelyabinsk meteor had that much energy (33 Hiroshima bombs, or 450 Kilo-tons of TNT), Jesus Christ, I'm just glad it exploded at 18 miles.

[prehistorydecoded]

Missing the Younger Dryas impact event, 10, 835 BC, thought to be caused by a fragmented comet over 1 km across and linked with Gobekli Tepe and therefore the origin of civilisation.

[jessbellis]

I'd never knew us Aussies had a massive meteor craters!

[neilwright]

Yet another "Stock Footage" montage full of random pics and clips that may or may not be even remotely relevant to the content. Still, it worked: got me here!

[herbertbisdorf]

Never heard of the Nördlinger Ries, a 25 km wide impact crater in Germany, which was caused by an impact 15 million years ago?

[MoTheNoob]

15?.. I Though This Channel Was Called
'Top Fives'? Interesting....

[ChrisBrown-pusm]

May I comment that it's exactly what I thought. Based upon the number of impact craters I'd imagine we must've had a number of these things occur and I'm glad our Planet show's the proof.

[RideAcrossTheRiver]

Interestingly, exhaust from mining at the Sudbury Basin polluted the landscape for a radius of 12 miles around the smelters. The acid rain was so bad that the landscape was like the Moon.

[danielsweeney]

Here in Michigan just a few years ago we had a meteor that light up the night's sky! It was cool

[Kimmy-pwtm]

This is a very interesting bit of information.

[evilnorman]

Meteor Crater or "Barringer" Crater was named after Daniel M Barringer a mining engineer, he was not the person to discover the crater but correctly deduced it must have been created by a larger iron metallic meteor impact.

[richardmagnus]

Splendid documentary! I enjoyed it so much and learned several things, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

[MoSuli]

Pretty cool video but just a suggestion, it’d be a lot easier to keep up with comparing them if you just compared them all by size or est. date occurred. Entertaining video though 🤙🏽