What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. What happens if a large asteroid or comet hits Earth? And what are the chances something like Oumuamua or Bennu could actually hit our planet?

00:00 Asteroids
1:37 Chelyabinsk
02:31 Chicxulub
03:46 Oumuamua
04:54 Bennu
05:30 Shoemaker-Levy 9
06:29 Ceres

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[roderickmesa]

Hey Peter, I really like the way you talk to the viewers and how the story is dived in a short time. You guys changed my life.

[khalilahd.]

I can always count on What If to remind me how easy we could all be wiped out 😭😭

[jackpressive]

Largest astroid: *hits earth*

Mom: It’s cause your always on your *DAMN* phone

[divyapatel]

...it's scary how vulnerable we are out there in space.

[kobecervania]

Timestamps Of Asteroids And Comet
1:37 Chelyabinsk Meteorite
2:31 Chicxulub
3:46 Oumuamua
4:53 Bennu
5:30 Shoemaker-Levy 9
6:29 Ceres

[harrietharlow]

Thank you, What if. I've had my daily dose of chaos and death. lol Seriously, LOVE your channel.

[Pharoset]

Dude. . . fantastic video. Some people are scared of monsters, some of spiders. etc. . . I am terrified of an asteroid hitting the earth. Man, looking up in the sky and seeing it get bigger and bigger in my field of vision is my worst nightmare.

[kempmt]

4:03-I sometimes say that Oumuamua is a heavily damaged spaceship in disguise of an asteroid to hide from the enemy while it’s being repaired

[pengiunanimatorguy]

5:05 When you said 2182 that made me relieved. That’s over a century from now! It’s not like we’ll be around by then.

[TheOrigamiGenius]

3:47 The way What if says Oumuamua is the funniest thing ever. Sounds like something from a song

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*”What if the largest asteroid hits earth?”*


Dinosaurs: *first time?*

[mamajune]

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[icyplayz]

Thank you so much for this i really find this entertaining and i learn a new lesson each day.

[neopagan]

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[wellsey]

Great, this video cheered me up no end!!!
Thanks for that mate!👍

[rachaeldangelo]

The knowledge that there are relatively small asteroids that can still cause an explosion like an atomic bomb like the 2 that hit russia (Tunguska and the more recent one I'm not even gonna attempt to spell the name of that city ) can hit us at anytime without us knowing about it before it impacts is kinda worrying to me and thank our lucky stars that they didn't hit populated areas but with the rate the world's population is growing it's just a matter of when and not if one of those small meteors will hit a city and cause significant damage and possibly loss of life. And the earth gets hit more often than most people think I've seen 2 meteorites that made it through the atmosphere and then break up into a bunch of tiny pieces. Both times I was out in the country and don't know if any of the fragments actually made landfall or was turned to dust when they broke apart so there could be a meteor somewhere out in the 2 fields I seen them at. Also witnessing those are what made me realize that small meteors making it through the atmosphere before being burnt up is probably way more common than most of us think, they just happen out in the middle of nowhere so barely anyone ever gets to see them

[DarthTrader]

Really well done. What a great presentation style. And those graphics showing the sizes were fantastic. Ceres would be a hard reset of the planet, with much less water left for the start over.

[newmystery_]

It is simply frightening how we have no influence whatsoever when such an asteroid hits the earth. We can just watch and that's it.

[kennethjohnson]

This is so entertaining and also deadly at the same time, wow.

[ClementineFlFlFl]

7:43 this guy has finished 2 consecutive weeks of overwork and he's happy to see that everything is finally over