Weird But True (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Space Rocks - full transcript
CHARLIE: Hi guys I'm Charlie!
This is my sister Kirby!
KIRBY: Hey guys!
CHARLIE: Today we're
hanging out in Arizona,
I think somewhere near
Winslow... right?
Flagstaff is
somewhere around here.
Not really sure, but we are
sure that we found something
pretty wicked, check it out.
Hey guys! You made it!
KIRBY: What's up?
CHARLIE: Welcome to Weird
But True Headquarters.
KIRBY: We'll call
it HQ for short.
CHARLIE: HQ works.
This is kind of
like our club house?
KIRBY: It's like a work room?
CHARLIE: Like a research room?
KIRBY: Sort of.
CHARLIE: Yeah like
a research room.
This is where we get all
of our projects done.
Like the big science projects.
They happen here
in headquarters.
KIRBY: And today, we got
a pretty awesome one.
CHARLIE: Ok so the craziest
thing just happened, and we're
kind of on a tear about it...
So, we just got back from
an absolutely terrific
campground in Wisconsin.
KIRBY: Go badgers!
CHARLIE: The best part?
That night sky.
KIRBY: Oh man!
CHARLIE: Magical.
KIRBY: Magic!
CHARLIE: Like someone
just tossed a billion
stars up there.
KIRBY: Just tossed 'em on up.
CHARLIE: So many stars!
In Chicago, where we
live, there's so much light
pollution that on most nights
we're lucky to see
the moon and, uh...
Just the moon.
KIRBY: Yeah that's
pretty much it.
CHARLIE: But that
Wisconsin sky!
We saw so many shooting stars!
Kirby could hardly
contain herself.
KIRBY: This is amazing!
-You two shush! Some people
are trying to sleep!
CHARLIE: Sorry!
But then we had a
little disagreement...
KIRBY: Gotta love a
good shooting star.
They're asteroids, right?
CHARLIE: Pretty
sure they're comets.
KIRBY: I don't know, Charles.
Pretty sure they're asteroids.
CHARLIE: I don't know, Kirb.
I'm pretty sure
they're comets.
KIRBY: They're asteroids.
CHARLIE: They're
totally Comets!
-Shush! You're both wrong.
They're meteors.
CHARLIE: Meteors? Hadn't
thought about meteors before.
So, we've got a bit of
an issue on our hands.
We've got asteroids,
comets, and meteors.
And we're not really
sure what's what.
KIRBY: They're asteroids.
CHARLIE: I know,
but like, the question is
what even is an asteroid?
KIRBY: I have no idea.
CHARLIE: See I
don't know either!
So that's what
we're doing today.
We're unraveling
the world of...
Space Rocks!
Alright so
I'm pretty sure we got
it all figured out.
It turns out that all of these
things, meteors, asteroids,
and comets can all be
summed up as wait for it...
Near Earth Objects.
KIRBY: Near Earth Objects.
CHARLIE: Fun Science Word!
Near Earth Objects!
NEOs are space rocks
that come close to earth.
KIRBY: Nailed it.
CHARLIE: Right, so here are
the players in the NEO game.
KIRBY: So first we got comets,
A.K.A. Dirty snowballs.
CHARLIE: Comets, alright
basically these things are
huge rocky ice chunks made out
of ice, rocks, gases,
you know, the good stuff.
It can be hundreds of meters
long to 30 kilometers across.
So, they're pretty huge!
If you check it out, on the
inside there's a rocky hard
nucleus, but on the outside,
they're surrounded by this
gas layer that makes up the
tail, it's called the coma.
It can be hundreds of
millions of miles long.
So, comets, dirty ice chunks.
KIRBY: Next up
we've got Asteroids.
CHARLIE: Asteroids.
These things are pieces
of other planets.
That are a lot
bigger than comets.
Hundreds of times
bigger than comets.
So, they're massive!
Unlike comets, there's
no ice, there's no
gas, there's no tails,
they're just giant
irregularly shaped rocks.
Which is really cool because
the come in all sorts
of weird shapes like this.
Asteroids.
KIRBY: And then
we've got meteoroids!
CHARLIE: Meteoroids!
Meteoroids are super
tiny space rocks.
CHARLIE: They're basically
very small pieces
of comets, asteroids,
or other space things that
are kind of floating around.
They're metallic and can be
as small as a grain of sand.
Cool, cool.
So, meteoroids, super
small space rocks.
KIRBY: Weird but true,
in ancient Greece, comets
were called "hairy stars"!
Easy enough.
CHARLIE: Yeah right?
But the cool thing happens
when everything enters
Earth's atmosphere, they
become... meteors.
KIRBY: So, you're saying
meteoroids become meteors?
CHARLIE: Nah man everything
becomes a meteor.
KIRBY: All of it?
CHARLIE: Everything!
Asteroids, comets, meteoroids.
When they enter Earth's
atmosphere, they all
become... meteors.
But if they touch down
on earth then they're
called meteorites.
KIRBY: Oh my gosh!
Do you know what
I just realized?
CHARLIE: I think I
just realized it too!
KIRBY: The shusher!
CHARLIE: The dude
from the campsite!
-Shush! You're both
wrong, they're meteors.
CHARLIE: He was right!
KIRBY: Crazy!
CHARLIE: All of the
shooting stars we saw they
were all NEOs passing
through the earth's atmosphere.
So that means they were all.
KIRBY: No way.
CHARLIE: Meteors!
KIRBY: Crazy!
CHARLIE: So smart!
How'd that dude know?
KIRBY: I don't know.
CHARLIE: You know
what's next right?
KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: We gotta
learn what happens when
they touch the ground.
KIRBY: Meteorites.
CHARLIE: Meteorites. Ready?
KIRBY: Let's do it.
CHARLIE: Alright guys, we
gotta put together like a few
art pieces, and then we'll
have so much to show you!
Ok? Awesome.
KIRBY: Weird but true, if you
fell into a black hole, you'd
stretch out like spaghetti!
CHARLIE: Hey guys!
KIRBY: What's up?
CHARLIE: We're just
finishing some up here.
A few more touches.
KIRBY: Perfect.
CHARLIE: Today we're
checking out NEOs.
KIRBY: Near earth objects.
CHARLIE: So far, we've
learned the difference
between asteroids.
KIRBY: Comets.
CHARLIE: And Meteoroids.
KIRBY: And now we're
checking out impact events.
CHARLIE: Impact events.
That's what happens when
two space objects collide.
(boom)
You get an impact event.
Come on down, check this out.
So, this is our solar system.
Roughly.
We got all the highlights.
The sun, Mars,
Saturn, Jupiter.
KIRBY: Sup Jupiter?
CHARLIE: We got 'em all!
And beyond Jupiter,
even past Neptune is
where comets originate.
Asteroids are a
little closer to home.
They reside mostly in
the asteroid belt which hangs
out between Mars and Jupiter.
So, usually they keep orbiting
this far away, minding their
own business, but sometimes,
interacting with different
planets or space objects
can alter the paths
around the sun.
And sometimes,
that sends them...
Right in the path of Earth!
KIRBY: Pew! Pew! Pew!
CHARLIE: Scientists
estimate that roughly 33
to 70 million kilograms
of space material falls
to earth each year.
Most of the stuff is
really small, the size
of dust particles,
but some can be
absolutely massive!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: And when big
objects collide in space,
that's when you get,
an impact event!
KIRBY: Impact events!
CHARLIE: When celestial
objects collide.
In this case
earth and meteors.
KIRBY: Pew!
CHARLIE: Usually, it's not too
bad, nothing really happens,
but infrequently it can be
absolutely catastrophic!
KIRBY: But that
happens like never.
CHARLIE: Yeah, but luckily
for you guys, we've uncovered
some historic footage.
KIRBY: Some rare footage.
CHARLIE: Hey!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: Yeah this
totally works.
Ok, check it out.
Some historic news footage
from the most important
impact events throughout
the history of the world,
from even before the
dinosaurs were alive.
(record scratch)
KIRBY: Wait...
they had cameras back then?
CHARLIE: Eh don't
worry about it alright?
Ok Check it out.
Good morning early earth.
I'm Charlie.
KIRBY: And I'm Kirby.
CHARLIE: And we're
here for Big Bang
News, with your latest
breaking early earth news
stories on today's date,
4.5 billion
years before present.
Here are today's top stories.
Big news coming in from
our celestial unit as
Earth now has a new moon.
This afternoon
a mars-sized celestial
body collided with earth.
A fraction of the debris has
begun orbiting our planet
and, we can hypothesize,
will eventually form a moon.
No one was injured during
the impact because no one
is alive on earth right now.
KIRBY: Terrible news this
morning coming in from the
Yucatan peninsula as a large
meteorite over 100 miles
wide impacted earth near
the future site
of a small Mexican
village named Chicxulub.
We're receiving reports from
prehistoric animals that the
Chicxulub impact has caused
global fire storms,
tsunamis, and vicious
amounts of acid rain.
The outlook does not look good
for our dinosaur friends,
as well as 80% of the
species of earth.
CHARLIE: Good morning
citizens of Siberia.
In local news a
220-million-pound space
rock exploded last night
above the town of Vanavara.
Researchers have found 800
square miles of forest land
and 80 million trees were
completely leveled by
the resulting blast.
KIRBY: Top stories coming in
this morning from Sylacauga,
Alabama as sweet old Ann
Hodges was hit by a
softball sized meteorite
while sitting at home.
The large space rock blasted
through the roof of her rental
property, bounced off a radio,
and, hit her in the leg.
KIRBY: Ahh!
Luckily Ann is doing fine,
with little more than a huge
meteorite shaped
bruise, on her leg.
CHARLIE: That
totally happened!
Ann Hodges, an extremely
rare occurrence of a
human being getting hit
by a meteorite.
KIRBY: Ah! Poor old Ann!
CHARLIE: Gotta admit
it'd be pretty cool to
find one of those though.
KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: A meteorite.
KIRBY: You think?
CHARLIE: Yeah,
duh, meteorites.
KIRBY: Yeah but, you
know, I got a guy.
-What?
-Geoff, my buddy.
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: Totally!
CHARLIE: Yeah?
KIRBY: Mhm let
me just call him.
It'll take like two seconds.
CHARLIE: Kirby's
got a meteor guy.
KIRBY: Geoff! What's up man?
CHARLIE: I think we're gonna
let this play out for a bit,
but come back when Kirby's
done with her call ok?
Like two minutes.
KIRBY: I'm thinking
of coming to Arizona.
CHARLIE: Not too long.
See you soon.
KIRBY: Weird but true,
the planet Uranus was
originally called George!
CHARLIE: Hey guys! Welcome back.
Kirby's just finishing
up a call super quickly.
So, it should just take
like a second or two ok?
KIRBY: Sounds perfect Geoff.
We'll see you soon.
How's it going?
CHARLIE: What's up?
KIRBY: That was Geoff.
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: My meteorite buddy.
CHARLIE: Kirby's
got a meteorite guy.
KIRBY: Yeah.
CHARLIE: That's pretty cool.
KIRBY: We just gotta whip on
down to Arizona real quick.
CHARLIE: Ok Arizona.
You ready to go?
KIRBY: Let's go.
CHARLIE: Tucson, Arizona.
The old Pueblo.
The Sunshine Factory.
Home to a couple cacti,
the University of Arizona.
KIRBY: Go Wildcats!
CHARLIE: And
Kirby's meteor guy.
Geoff! Meteorite All-Star!
Rock collecting and
fossil hunting since
the age of seven,
Geoff wrote the book
on meteorite hunting.
Literally.
He wrote a book called
'Meteorite Hunting'.
Geoff's favorite weird but
true fact is, the sunset
on Mars appears blue!
KIRBY: Geoff?
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: Geoff?
GEOFF: Do we have company?
CHARLIE: Ohh.
GEOFF: Ohh, Kirby!
KIRBY: How's it going?
GEOFF: Good to see you!
KIRBY: It's good to see you.
GEOFF: How are you?
-This is my brother Charlie.
-I'm really excited.
KIRBY: Guys, Geoff.
Geoff, guys.
GEOFF: Hi.
CHARLIE: So, Kirby tells me
you're a meteorite specialist.
We gotta ask, why meteorites?
I mean... what gets you
so excited about 'em?
GEOFF: They're amazing!
CHARLIE: Yeah?
GEOFF: They're visitors
from outer space
what's not to love?
We're gonna start
with stone meteorites.
CHARLIE: Can we touch these?
GEOFF: Please do.
CHARLIE: Ahh.
GEOFF: What is the surface?
KIRBY: Smooth.
GEOFF: And?
CHARLIE: Black.
GEOFF: Black! Why? Why?
CHARLIE: Burnt.
GEOFF: Exactly!
The surface was super-heated
as they blasted through the
atmosphere probably to about
3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
KIRBY: Whoa!
GEOFF: And if you turn that
one over, you see the inside
and you can see how
thin that rind is.
KIRBY: Oh yeah.
CHARLIE: Is this the crust?
GEOFF: Yes.
CHARLIE: What was it called?
GEOFF: Fusion crust.
CHARLIE: Fusion crust.
GEOFF: And that is a
tell-tale sign of recently
fallen meteorites.
CHARLIE: Weird but true, even
though a meteor's burning up
in the sky when it's falling
by the time it makes it
to the Earth it's nice
and cool to the touch.
So, you said
these are recently fallen?
GEOFF: This one was
probably picked up within
a few days of the fall.
CHARLIE: Alright.
GEOFF: And this one
probably a week or so.
And we know that because
there's no hint of rust on it,
and meteorites are rich in iron
even these stoney types.
So, after they've been
exposed to even one rainfall,
they'll begin to rust a bit.
CHARLIE: Hmm I'm
guessing this isn't what
most look like though.
GEOFF: This is actually
what most meteorites
on earth look like.
CHARLIE: Hmm and most
of the ones that you
find probably right?
GEOFF: Yes.
Meteorites by in large
are very rich in iron and
this is called a stone,
a stony meteorite.
Now the magnet sticking
to a rock doesn't
make it a meteorite.
CHARLIE: Yeah.
KIRBY: Mhmm.
GEOFF: But it's a
very good first step.
CHARLIE: Tell-tale sign.
GEOFF: Yes indeed.
KIRBY: Very cool.
CHARLIE: Mhmm.
GEOFF: Most meteorites
will stick strongly
to a powerful magnet.
CHARLIE: So, Geoff, these are
pretty sweet but can someone
like us find a meteorite
if we really wanted to?
GEOFF: Most definitely,
I'm so glad you asked!
CHARLIE: Let's do it!
KIRBY: Alright let's go.
GEOFF: Ok after you.
You ready to go find
some meteorites?
CHARLIE: Yeah, let's roll!
GEOFF: I knew it!
In addition to the metal
detectors, I'm gonna give
you these rock hammers.
And they have powerful
magnets attached.
CHARLIE: Mhm.
KIRBY: Mhm.
CHARLIE: There you go.
KIRBY: Ay yo.
GEOFF: Very powerful.
CHARLIE: Powerful.
GEOFF: Meteorites are
rich in iron and we're
gonna use the detectors
to find them so we're hoping
to get a loud sharp target
with the detectors
and once we have
that we're going
to dig with these.
KIRBY: Cool.
CHARLIE: Sounds great.
Here's a weird but true
fact, even though we are
in Arizona, small tiny
meteorites fall to the
ground all over the Earth,
every single day.
Most fall into the ocean
so that makes the ones that
we find even more rare
and valuable.
GEOFF: This is a training
ground; we've buried
meteorites here in order
to teach you exactly
how to find them,
but to keep it interesting I
don't know where they are.
CHARLIE: Oh.
-I got no advantage except
I've been doing this
for a little while.
KIRBY: Kind of feels
like you're vacuuming.
GEOFF: It does!
CHARLIE: We're just
looking for rocks, but I've
never been more amped up.
(detector sound)
KIRBY: I have something!
CHARLIE: Oh!
KIRBY: Freaking out!
GEOFF: Let me see if
we can pinpoint this.
KIRBY: Hey!
GEOFF: Yeah you definitely
got a target there.
KIRBY: Yeah!
GEOFF: With your boot push
away that surface covering,
maybe half an inch or an inch.
KIRBY: Ahh!
GEOFF: I think you
already found your target.
KIRBY: Look at this
beautiful target!
CHARLIE: Ahh!
GEOFF: Wow that's some of
the best wire I've seen
out here, well done.
Kirby you were
looking for meteorites.
KIRBY: Yup.
GEOFF: You found a target, but
it's not actually a meteorite.
What do you think
we call that?
KIRBY: Umm. I don't know. What?
GEOFF: Go on, guess.
KIRBY: Watzomenjatzo?
GEOFF: Very good try.
How about meteor-wrong?
KIRBY: Hey now.
CHARLIE: Ugh!
KIRBY: No! Bummer.
Oh well.
CHARLIE: So many false
positives today...
takes a toll on
a meteor hunter.
KIRBY: Keep going...
never give up!
GEOFF: Hey meteorite
hunters, I got a target over
here I want you to check out.
CHARLIE: Woo!
KIRBY: Ay yo!
CHARLIE: Finally, ugh.
KIRBY: Exciting.
GEOFF: So, what I want you
to do is take your rockpick,
drag that magnet around.
CHARLIE: Slow but
vigorous rake.
GEOFF: Exactly.
CHARLIE: We're so close.
Come on!
GEOFF: That sir is a genuine
meteorite from outer space!
CHARLIE: We got it!
KIRBY: Woo!
CHARLIE: Hooray!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: Woo! We did it!
Weird but true fact, the
largest meteorite ever
found is in Namibia,
it's estimated at 50 tons.
They're not too sure
because no one's be
able to move it yet.
I say we go find some more.
What do you guys think?
GEOFF: I agree!
Ooh.
CHARLIE: Ohh!
GEOFF: Ah that
sounds very good!
It's right in there.
CHARLIE: We got a big one!
KIRBY: Yes! Yes!
Ay yo! Ay!
CHARLIE: Ay!
KIRBY: It's so huge!
CHARLIE: This one's massive!
GEOFF: That is how we do it!
Now that you found your own
meteorites, I have a huge
treat in store for you.
I'm going to send you to
the most famous meteorite
crater in the entire world,
and it's right
here in Arizona.
CHARLIE: Can we hunt there?
GEOFF: Hunting's not allowed,
it's a protected site.
CHARLIE: Hmm.
GEOFF: But that doesn't
matter, believe me you
will not be disappointed.
CHARLIE: Hey that
sounds pretty good.
What do you think?
KIRBY: Let's do it.
How do we get there?
GEOFF: I'll tell you.
CHARLIE: We gotta figure out
how to get to this place
but it sounds pretty
awesome, alright?
We'll see you there in a few
minutes, at the meteor crater.
Awesome! Back in a flash!
KIRBY: Weird but
true, moon dust smells
like burned gunpowder!
KIRBY: Yep Geoff,
we just made it.
I'll talk to you soon.
CHARLIE: See ya Geoff!
Oh, hey guys!
We made it!
Winslow Arizona,
Barringer crater.
According to our buddy
Geoff this is one of the most
well-preserved meteor
craters in the entire world.
KIRBY: 50,000 years ago.
Earth. Arizona.
Suddenly, a bright light
appeared in the sky!
A meteor!
Traveling at 26,000
miles an hour!
Bam! Pew!
Explosions!
Rocks flying everywhere!
When the dust finally
settled, nothing remained
but this giant crater thing.
The End.
CHARLIE: Sounds
pretty awesome, you
wanna check it out?
KIRBY: Heck yes!
CHARLIE: You guys
wanna check it out?
KIRBY: Let's go.
CHARLIE: Awesome let's roll!
The Barringer Crater!
Alright, so we kind of just
went for it, but honestly,
we had no idea what
we were looking at...
Dude, look at this place!
KIRBY: This is huge!
CHARLIE: ...Until we
stumbled across this guy!
Yo Kirb its Eduardo!
This guy's been a tour
guide here for 20 years
so if we wanna know
about this crater, this
is the guy to talk to.
He is a Barringer
Crater expert.
And his favorite weird
but true fact is,
astronauts' footprints
stay on the moon forever!
There's no wind
to blow them away.
Hey Eduardo!
How it going?
EDUARDO: Hey guys!
Good! Good to meet you!
CHARLIE: This is Kirby.
KIRBY: Hey Eduardo
nice to meet you.
CHARLIE: It's nice
to meet you too!
Guys, Eduardo...
Eduardo, guys!
EDUARDO: Hi guys.
CHARLIE: So, we heard this
is the most well-preserved
crater, right?
EDUARDO: It is the
best-preserved crater.
CHARLIE: Best
preserved crater.
EDUARDO: ...On the planet.
It's three miles
around, a mile across.
CHARLIE: Mhm.
KIRBY: Whoa.
EDUARDO: And its
550 feet deep.
CHARLIE: Alright, so check out
how massive this crater is.
This is about the size of
an Olympic swimming pool.
Here's a baseball field.
This is about the size
of a football field.
Alright back to the crater.
How big was the meteor?
Did they know how big it was?
EDUARDO: Yes! We think...
that the meteorite was
about 150 feet in diameter.
CHARLIE: Have they
found pieces of it?
EDUARDO: Oh yes in the
museum itself we have
the the biggest piece.
There's one in New York City
and there's one in Chicago
both from this impact site.
CHARLIE: Where
is Chicago is it?
We're from Chicago.
EDUARDO: The Field museum.
KIRBY: Hey!
CHARLIE: We go
there all the time!
KIRBY: We love that place.
EDUARDO: You gotta see that.
CHARLIE: We gotta check
it out when we go home.
EDUARDO: Yeah there
you go Charlie, it's
called the Diablo Iron.
CHARLIE: Diablo Iron.
KIRBY: It's a solid name.
CHARLIE: They name them.
EDUARDO: Most of that
debris from the impact
is on the west side.
KIRBY: Ohh.
EDUARDO: By Canyon Diablo.
CHARLIE: So, it
came, it came from.
EDUARDO: From the east.
CHARLIE: From this way.
EDUARDO: It exploded
underground and there was this
huge uplift and flip over
and that's what
forms the crater.
In the process
it disintegrated.
CHARLIE: Here's a
weird but true fact,
this whole area used
to be covered in this
hard rock sandstone.
Meteor hits, huge explosion,
now everything's pulverized
into this rock flour it's
as fine as the flour you
bake with at home.
Even weirder fact, when
this stuff gets wet it
turns into quicksand.
So, you said
this happened 50,000
years ago, right?
EDUARDO: Right.
The only type of
life form would have been
your Woolly Mammoth.
CHARLIE: Mhmm.
EDUARDO: Bison, reptiles.
Now anything would have not
survived if they were within
a ten to 25-mile radius.
CHARLIE: Whoa!
KIRBY: Whoa!
EDUARDO: Just from the impact.
CHARLIE: So, if people were
around here at the time,
what would it be like?
They'd just be in
a lot of trouble.
EDUARDO: You would
have been toast.
CHARLIE: Toast, been
fried, meteor fried!
EDUARDO: Nada.
CHARLIE: Nothing like spending
the afternoon exploring the
best-preserved crater
on the entire planet with
our new buddy Eduardo.
KIRBY: Eduardo is the man!
He knew everything.
This visit was so amazing.
CHARLIE: Alright guys, we
gotta go back to headquarters,
but we'll see you
in a bit, okay?
Back in a flash!
KIRBY: See you soon.
Weird but true, the
temperature on the moon can
be hotter than boiling water!
CHARLIE: What's up guys?
We just got back from the
Barringer Crater in Arizona.
KIRBY: Eduardo is the man!
CHARLIE: The best!
What about Geoff?
Hunting for meteorites
on the ground!
KIRBY: My boy Geoff!
CHARLIE: What else
did we learn today?
Ah NEOs!
Near earth objects,
we got comets, which
are dirty ice balls.
KIRBY: We got
asteroids, irregularly
shaped planet chunks.
CHARLIE: And meteoroids,
metallic space sand.
KIRBY: And they all
become meteors when they
enter earth's atmosphere.
CHARLIE: And they
become meteorites when
they touch the ground.
Our favorite weird but true
facts we learned today are:
One meteorite hit earth 65
million years ago and wiped
out 80% of earth's species
including the dinosaurs.
KIRBY: Small meteorites fall
to the ground every day.
CHARLIE: Rock flour is super
fine powder that was created
when a meteorite hit the earth
and pulverized the
sandstone rocks.
KIRBY: Charles!
Glow in the dark stars!
CHARLIE: Hey!
KIRBY: This place
is gonna be magic!
CHARLIE: Aw just
like Wisconsin!
KIRBY: This is amazing!
CHARLIE: Ah! Meteorites!
KIRBY: NEOs!
CHARLIE: Impact
event extinction!
Just like the dinosaurs!
How much do you know
about dinosaurs?
KIRBY: Uh not that
much actually.
CHARLIE: I heard
they were feathered.
KIRBY: That's weird.
I wonder if it's true.
CHARLIE: Next project?
KIRBY: Absolutely!
CHARLIE: Alright.
Guys, thanks so much
for stopping by!
Come by again when
we discover more things
that are weird but true!
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Cotter Captioning Services.
This is my sister Kirby!
KIRBY: Hey guys!
CHARLIE: Today we're
hanging out in Arizona,
I think somewhere near
Winslow... right?
Flagstaff is
somewhere around here.
Not really sure, but we are
sure that we found something
pretty wicked, check it out.
Hey guys! You made it!
KIRBY: What's up?
CHARLIE: Welcome to Weird
But True Headquarters.
KIRBY: We'll call
it HQ for short.
CHARLIE: HQ works.
This is kind of
like our club house?
KIRBY: It's like a work room?
CHARLIE: Like a research room?
KIRBY: Sort of.
CHARLIE: Yeah like
a research room.
This is where we get all
of our projects done.
Like the big science projects.
They happen here
in headquarters.
KIRBY: And today, we got
a pretty awesome one.
CHARLIE: Ok so the craziest
thing just happened, and we're
kind of on a tear about it...
So, we just got back from
an absolutely terrific
campground in Wisconsin.
KIRBY: Go badgers!
CHARLIE: The best part?
That night sky.
KIRBY: Oh man!
CHARLIE: Magical.
KIRBY: Magic!
CHARLIE: Like someone
just tossed a billion
stars up there.
KIRBY: Just tossed 'em on up.
CHARLIE: So many stars!
In Chicago, where we
live, there's so much light
pollution that on most nights
we're lucky to see
the moon and, uh...
Just the moon.
KIRBY: Yeah that's
pretty much it.
CHARLIE: But that
Wisconsin sky!
We saw so many shooting stars!
Kirby could hardly
contain herself.
KIRBY: This is amazing!
-You two shush! Some people
are trying to sleep!
CHARLIE: Sorry!
But then we had a
little disagreement...
KIRBY: Gotta love a
good shooting star.
They're asteroids, right?
CHARLIE: Pretty
sure they're comets.
KIRBY: I don't know, Charles.
Pretty sure they're asteroids.
CHARLIE: I don't know, Kirb.
I'm pretty sure
they're comets.
KIRBY: They're asteroids.
CHARLIE: They're
totally Comets!
-Shush! You're both wrong.
They're meteors.
CHARLIE: Meteors? Hadn't
thought about meteors before.
So, we've got a bit of
an issue on our hands.
We've got asteroids,
comets, and meteors.
And we're not really
sure what's what.
KIRBY: They're asteroids.
CHARLIE: I know,
but like, the question is
what even is an asteroid?
KIRBY: I have no idea.
CHARLIE: See I
don't know either!
So that's what
we're doing today.
We're unraveling
the world of...
Space Rocks!
Alright so
I'm pretty sure we got
it all figured out.
It turns out that all of these
things, meteors, asteroids,
and comets can all be
summed up as wait for it...
Near Earth Objects.
KIRBY: Near Earth Objects.
CHARLIE: Fun Science Word!
Near Earth Objects!
NEOs are space rocks
that come close to earth.
KIRBY: Nailed it.
CHARLIE: Right, so here are
the players in the NEO game.
KIRBY: So first we got comets,
A.K.A. Dirty snowballs.
CHARLIE: Comets, alright
basically these things are
huge rocky ice chunks made out
of ice, rocks, gases,
you know, the good stuff.
It can be hundreds of meters
long to 30 kilometers across.
So, they're pretty huge!
If you check it out, on the
inside there's a rocky hard
nucleus, but on the outside,
they're surrounded by this
gas layer that makes up the
tail, it's called the coma.
It can be hundreds of
millions of miles long.
So, comets, dirty ice chunks.
KIRBY: Next up
we've got Asteroids.
CHARLIE: Asteroids.
These things are pieces
of other planets.
That are a lot
bigger than comets.
Hundreds of times
bigger than comets.
So, they're massive!
Unlike comets, there's
no ice, there's no
gas, there's no tails,
they're just giant
irregularly shaped rocks.
Which is really cool because
the come in all sorts
of weird shapes like this.
Asteroids.
KIRBY: And then
we've got meteoroids!
CHARLIE: Meteoroids!
Meteoroids are super
tiny space rocks.
CHARLIE: They're basically
very small pieces
of comets, asteroids,
or other space things that
are kind of floating around.
They're metallic and can be
as small as a grain of sand.
Cool, cool.
So, meteoroids, super
small space rocks.
KIRBY: Weird but true,
in ancient Greece, comets
were called "hairy stars"!
Easy enough.
CHARLIE: Yeah right?
But the cool thing happens
when everything enters
Earth's atmosphere, they
become... meteors.
KIRBY: So, you're saying
meteoroids become meteors?
CHARLIE: Nah man everything
becomes a meteor.
KIRBY: All of it?
CHARLIE: Everything!
Asteroids, comets, meteoroids.
When they enter Earth's
atmosphere, they all
become... meteors.
But if they touch down
on earth then they're
called meteorites.
KIRBY: Oh my gosh!
Do you know what
I just realized?
CHARLIE: I think I
just realized it too!
KIRBY: The shusher!
CHARLIE: The dude
from the campsite!
-Shush! You're both
wrong, they're meteors.
CHARLIE: He was right!
KIRBY: Crazy!
CHARLIE: All of the
shooting stars we saw they
were all NEOs passing
through the earth's atmosphere.
So that means they were all.
KIRBY: No way.
CHARLIE: Meteors!
KIRBY: Crazy!
CHARLIE: So smart!
How'd that dude know?
KIRBY: I don't know.
CHARLIE: You know
what's next right?
KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: We gotta
learn what happens when
they touch the ground.
KIRBY: Meteorites.
CHARLIE: Meteorites. Ready?
KIRBY: Let's do it.
CHARLIE: Alright guys, we
gotta put together like a few
art pieces, and then we'll
have so much to show you!
Ok? Awesome.
KIRBY: Weird but true, if you
fell into a black hole, you'd
stretch out like spaghetti!
CHARLIE: Hey guys!
KIRBY: What's up?
CHARLIE: We're just
finishing some up here.
A few more touches.
KIRBY: Perfect.
CHARLIE: Today we're
checking out NEOs.
KIRBY: Near earth objects.
CHARLIE: So far, we've
learned the difference
between asteroids.
KIRBY: Comets.
CHARLIE: And Meteoroids.
KIRBY: And now we're
checking out impact events.
CHARLIE: Impact events.
That's what happens when
two space objects collide.
(boom)
You get an impact event.
Come on down, check this out.
So, this is our solar system.
Roughly.
We got all the highlights.
The sun, Mars,
Saturn, Jupiter.
KIRBY: Sup Jupiter?
CHARLIE: We got 'em all!
And beyond Jupiter,
even past Neptune is
where comets originate.
Asteroids are a
little closer to home.
They reside mostly in
the asteroid belt which hangs
out between Mars and Jupiter.
So, usually they keep orbiting
this far away, minding their
own business, but sometimes,
interacting with different
planets or space objects
can alter the paths
around the sun.
And sometimes,
that sends them...
Right in the path of Earth!
KIRBY: Pew! Pew! Pew!
CHARLIE: Scientists
estimate that roughly 33
to 70 million kilograms
of space material falls
to earth each year.
Most of the stuff is
really small, the size
of dust particles,
but some can be
absolutely massive!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: And when big
objects collide in space,
that's when you get,
an impact event!
KIRBY: Impact events!
CHARLIE: When celestial
objects collide.
In this case
earth and meteors.
KIRBY: Pew!
CHARLIE: Usually, it's not too
bad, nothing really happens,
but infrequently it can be
absolutely catastrophic!
KIRBY: But that
happens like never.
CHARLIE: Yeah, but luckily
for you guys, we've uncovered
some historic footage.
KIRBY: Some rare footage.
CHARLIE: Hey!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: Yeah this
totally works.
Ok, check it out.
Some historic news footage
from the most important
impact events throughout
the history of the world,
from even before the
dinosaurs were alive.
(record scratch)
KIRBY: Wait...
they had cameras back then?
CHARLIE: Eh don't
worry about it alright?
Ok Check it out.
Good morning early earth.
I'm Charlie.
KIRBY: And I'm Kirby.
CHARLIE: And we're
here for Big Bang
News, with your latest
breaking early earth news
stories on today's date,
4.5 billion
years before present.
Here are today's top stories.
Big news coming in from
our celestial unit as
Earth now has a new moon.
This afternoon
a mars-sized celestial
body collided with earth.
A fraction of the debris has
begun orbiting our planet
and, we can hypothesize,
will eventually form a moon.
No one was injured during
the impact because no one
is alive on earth right now.
KIRBY: Terrible news this
morning coming in from the
Yucatan peninsula as a large
meteorite over 100 miles
wide impacted earth near
the future site
of a small Mexican
village named Chicxulub.
We're receiving reports from
prehistoric animals that the
Chicxulub impact has caused
global fire storms,
tsunamis, and vicious
amounts of acid rain.
The outlook does not look good
for our dinosaur friends,
as well as 80% of the
species of earth.
CHARLIE: Good morning
citizens of Siberia.
In local news a
220-million-pound space
rock exploded last night
above the town of Vanavara.
Researchers have found 800
square miles of forest land
and 80 million trees were
completely leveled by
the resulting blast.
KIRBY: Top stories coming in
this morning from Sylacauga,
Alabama as sweet old Ann
Hodges was hit by a
softball sized meteorite
while sitting at home.
The large space rock blasted
through the roof of her rental
property, bounced off a radio,
and, hit her in the leg.
KIRBY: Ahh!
Luckily Ann is doing fine,
with little more than a huge
meteorite shaped
bruise, on her leg.
CHARLIE: That
totally happened!
Ann Hodges, an extremely
rare occurrence of a
human being getting hit
by a meteorite.
KIRBY: Ah! Poor old Ann!
CHARLIE: Gotta admit
it'd be pretty cool to
find one of those though.
KIRBY: What?
CHARLIE: A meteorite.
KIRBY: You think?
CHARLIE: Yeah,
duh, meteorites.
KIRBY: Yeah but, you
know, I got a guy.
-What?
-Geoff, my buddy.
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: Totally!
CHARLIE: Yeah?
KIRBY: Mhm let
me just call him.
It'll take like two seconds.
CHARLIE: Kirby's
got a meteor guy.
KIRBY: Geoff! What's up man?
CHARLIE: I think we're gonna
let this play out for a bit,
but come back when Kirby's
done with her call ok?
Like two minutes.
KIRBY: I'm thinking
of coming to Arizona.
CHARLIE: Not too long.
See you soon.
KIRBY: Weird but true,
the planet Uranus was
originally called George!
CHARLIE: Hey guys! Welcome back.
Kirby's just finishing
up a call super quickly.
So, it should just take
like a second or two ok?
KIRBY: Sounds perfect Geoff.
We'll see you soon.
How's it going?
CHARLIE: What's up?
KIRBY: That was Geoff.
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: My meteorite buddy.
CHARLIE: Kirby's
got a meteorite guy.
KIRBY: Yeah.
CHARLIE: That's pretty cool.
KIRBY: We just gotta whip on
down to Arizona real quick.
CHARLIE: Ok Arizona.
You ready to go?
KIRBY: Let's go.
CHARLIE: Tucson, Arizona.
The old Pueblo.
The Sunshine Factory.
Home to a couple cacti,
the University of Arizona.
KIRBY: Go Wildcats!
CHARLIE: And
Kirby's meteor guy.
Geoff! Meteorite All-Star!
Rock collecting and
fossil hunting since
the age of seven,
Geoff wrote the book
on meteorite hunting.
Literally.
He wrote a book called
'Meteorite Hunting'.
Geoff's favorite weird but
true fact is, the sunset
on Mars appears blue!
KIRBY: Geoff?
CHARLIE: Geoff?
KIRBY: Geoff?
GEOFF: Do we have company?
CHARLIE: Ohh.
GEOFF: Ohh, Kirby!
KIRBY: How's it going?
GEOFF: Good to see you!
KIRBY: It's good to see you.
GEOFF: How are you?
-This is my brother Charlie.
-I'm really excited.
KIRBY: Guys, Geoff.
Geoff, guys.
GEOFF: Hi.
CHARLIE: So, Kirby tells me
you're a meteorite specialist.
We gotta ask, why meteorites?
I mean... what gets you
so excited about 'em?
GEOFF: They're amazing!
CHARLIE: Yeah?
GEOFF: They're visitors
from outer space
what's not to love?
We're gonna start
with stone meteorites.
CHARLIE: Can we touch these?
GEOFF: Please do.
CHARLIE: Ahh.
GEOFF: What is the surface?
KIRBY: Smooth.
GEOFF: And?
CHARLIE: Black.
GEOFF: Black! Why? Why?
CHARLIE: Burnt.
GEOFF: Exactly!
The surface was super-heated
as they blasted through the
atmosphere probably to about
3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
KIRBY: Whoa!
GEOFF: And if you turn that
one over, you see the inside
and you can see how
thin that rind is.
KIRBY: Oh yeah.
CHARLIE: Is this the crust?
GEOFF: Yes.
CHARLIE: What was it called?
GEOFF: Fusion crust.
CHARLIE: Fusion crust.
GEOFF: And that is a
tell-tale sign of recently
fallen meteorites.
CHARLIE: Weird but true, even
though a meteor's burning up
in the sky when it's falling
by the time it makes it
to the Earth it's nice
and cool to the touch.
So, you said
these are recently fallen?
GEOFF: This one was
probably picked up within
a few days of the fall.
CHARLIE: Alright.
GEOFF: And this one
probably a week or so.
And we know that because
there's no hint of rust on it,
and meteorites are rich in iron
even these stoney types.
So, after they've been
exposed to even one rainfall,
they'll begin to rust a bit.
CHARLIE: Hmm I'm
guessing this isn't what
most look like though.
GEOFF: This is actually
what most meteorites
on earth look like.
CHARLIE: Hmm and most
of the ones that you
find probably right?
GEOFF: Yes.
Meteorites by in large
are very rich in iron and
this is called a stone,
a stony meteorite.
Now the magnet sticking
to a rock doesn't
make it a meteorite.
CHARLIE: Yeah.
KIRBY: Mhmm.
GEOFF: But it's a
very good first step.
CHARLIE: Tell-tale sign.
GEOFF: Yes indeed.
KIRBY: Very cool.
CHARLIE: Mhmm.
GEOFF: Most meteorites
will stick strongly
to a powerful magnet.
CHARLIE: So, Geoff, these are
pretty sweet but can someone
like us find a meteorite
if we really wanted to?
GEOFF: Most definitely,
I'm so glad you asked!
CHARLIE: Let's do it!
KIRBY: Alright let's go.
GEOFF: Ok after you.
You ready to go find
some meteorites?
CHARLIE: Yeah, let's roll!
GEOFF: I knew it!
In addition to the metal
detectors, I'm gonna give
you these rock hammers.
And they have powerful
magnets attached.
CHARLIE: Mhm.
KIRBY: Mhm.
CHARLIE: There you go.
KIRBY: Ay yo.
GEOFF: Very powerful.
CHARLIE: Powerful.
GEOFF: Meteorites are
rich in iron and we're
gonna use the detectors
to find them so we're hoping
to get a loud sharp target
with the detectors
and once we have
that we're going
to dig with these.
KIRBY: Cool.
CHARLIE: Sounds great.
Here's a weird but true
fact, even though we are
in Arizona, small tiny
meteorites fall to the
ground all over the Earth,
every single day.
Most fall into the ocean
so that makes the ones that
we find even more rare
and valuable.
GEOFF: This is a training
ground; we've buried
meteorites here in order
to teach you exactly
how to find them,
but to keep it interesting I
don't know where they are.
CHARLIE: Oh.
-I got no advantage except
I've been doing this
for a little while.
KIRBY: Kind of feels
like you're vacuuming.
GEOFF: It does!
CHARLIE: We're just
looking for rocks, but I've
never been more amped up.
(detector sound)
KIRBY: I have something!
CHARLIE: Oh!
KIRBY: Freaking out!
GEOFF: Let me see if
we can pinpoint this.
KIRBY: Hey!
GEOFF: Yeah you definitely
got a target there.
KIRBY: Yeah!
GEOFF: With your boot push
away that surface covering,
maybe half an inch or an inch.
KIRBY: Ahh!
GEOFF: I think you
already found your target.
KIRBY: Look at this
beautiful target!
CHARLIE: Ahh!
GEOFF: Wow that's some of
the best wire I've seen
out here, well done.
Kirby you were
looking for meteorites.
KIRBY: Yup.
GEOFF: You found a target, but
it's not actually a meteorite.
What do you think
we call that?
KIRBY: Umm. I don't know. What?
GEOFF: Go on, guess.
KIRBY: Watzomenjatzo?
GEOFF: Very good try.
How about meteor-wrong?
KIRBY: Hey now.
CHARLIE: Ugh!
KIRBY: No! Bummer.
Oh well.
CHARLIE: So many false
positives today...
takes a toll on
a meteor hunter.
KIRBY: Keep going...
never give up!
GEOFF: Hey meteorite
hunters, I got a target over
here I want you to check out.
CHARLIE: Woo!
KIRBY: Ay yo!
CHARLIE: Finally, ugh.
KIRBY: Exciting.
GEOFF: So, what I want you
to do is take your rockpick,
drag that magnet around.
CHARLIE: Slow but
vigorous rake.
GEOFF: Exactly.
CHARLIE: We're so close.
Come on!
GEOFF: That sir is a genuine
meteorite from outer space!
CHARLIE: We got it!
KIRBY: Woo!
CHARLIE: Hooray!
KIRBY: Awesome!
CHARLIE: Woo! We did it!
Weird but true fact, the
largest meteorite ever
found is in Namibia,
it's estimated at 50 tons.
They're not too sure
because no one's be
able to move it yet.
I say we go find some more.
What do you guys think?
GEOFF: I agree!
Ooh.
CHARLIE: Ohh!
GEOFF: Ah that
sounds very good!
It's right in there.
CHARLIE: We got a big one!
KIRBY: Yes! Yes!
Ay yo! Ay!
CHARLIE: Ay!
KIRBY: It's so huge!
CHARLIE: This one's massive!
GEOFF: That is how we do it!
Now that you found your own
meteorites, I have a huge
treat in store for you.
I'm going to send you to
the most famous meteorite
crater in the entire world,
and it's right
here in Arizona.
CHARLIE: Can we hunt there?
GEOFF: Hunting's not allowed,
it's a protected site.
CHARLIE: Hmm.
GEOFF: But that doesn't
matter, believe me you
will not be disappointed.
CHARLIE: Hey that
sounds pretty good.
What do you think?
KIRBY: Let's do it.
How do we get there?
GEOFF: I'll tell you.
CHARLIE: We gotta figure out
how to get to this place
but it sounds pretty
awesome, alright?
We'll see you there in a few
minutes, at the meteor crater.
Awesome! Back in a flash!
KIRBY: Weird but
true, moon dust smells
like burned gunpowder!
KIRBY: Yep Geoff,
we just made it.
I'll talk to you soon.
CHARLIE: See ya Geoff!
Oh, hey guys!
We made it!
Winslow Arizona,
Barringer crater.
According to our buddy
Geoff this is one of the most
well-preserved meteor
craters in the entire world.
KIRBY: 50,000 years ago.
Earth. Arizona.
Suddenly, a bright light
appeared in the sky!
A meteor!
Traveling at 26,000
miles an hour!
Bam! Pew!
Explosions!
Rocks flying everywhere!
When the dust finally
settled, nothing remained
but this giant crater thing.
The End.
CHARLIE: Sounds
pretty awesome, you
wanna check it out?
KIRBY: Heck yes!
CHARLIE: You guys
wanna check it out?
KIRBY: Let's go.
CHARLIE: Awesome let's roll!
The Barringer Crater!
Alright, so we kind of just
went for it, but honestly,
we had no idea what
we were looking at...
Dude, look at this place!
KIRBY: This is huge!
CHARLIE: ...Until we
stumbled across this guy!
Yo Kirb its Eduardo!
This guy's been a tour
guide here for 20 years
so if we wanna know
about this crater, this
is the guy to talk to.
He is a Barringer
Crater expert.
And his favorite weird
but true fact is,
astronauts' footprints
stay on the moon forever!
There's no wind
to blow them away.
Hey Eduardo!
How it going?
EDUARDO: Hey guys!
Good! Good to meet you!
CHARLIE: This is Kirby.
KIRBY: Hey Eduardo
nice to meet you.
CHARLIE: It's nice
to meet you too!
Guys, Eduardo...
Eduardo, guys!
EDUARDO: Hi guys.
CHARLIE: So, we heard this
is the most well-preserved
crater, right?
EDUARDO: It is the
best-preserved crater.
CHARLIE: Best
preserved crater.
EDUARDO: ...On the planet.
It's three miles
around, a mile across.
CHARLIE: Mhm.
KIRBY: Whoa.
EDUARDO: And its
550 feet deep.
CHARLIE: Alright, so check out
how massive this crater is.
This is about the size of
an Olympic swimming pool.
Here's a baseball field.
This is about the size
of a football field.
Alright back to the crater.
How big was the meteor?
Did they know how big it was?
EDUARDO: Yes! We think...
that the meteorite was
about 150 feet in diameter.
CHARLIE: Have they
found pieces of it?
EDUARDO: Oh yes in the
museum itself we have
the the biggest piece.
There's one in New York City
and there's one in Chicago
both from this impact site.
CHARLIE: Where
is Chicago is it?
We're from Chicago.
EDUARDO: The Field museum.
KIRBY: Hey!
CHARLIE: We go
there all the time!
KIRBY: We love that place.
EDUARDO: You gotta see that.
CHARLIE: We gotta check
it out when we go home.
EDUARDO: Yeah there
you go Charlie, it's
called the Diablo Iron.
CHARLIE: Diablo Iron.
KIRBY: It's a solid name.
CHARLIE: They name them.
EDUARDO: Most of that
debris from the impact
is on the west side.
KIRBY: Ohh.
EDUARDO: By Canyon Diablo.
CHARLIE: So, it
came, it came from.
EDUARDO: From the east.
CHARLIE: From this way.
EDUARDO: It exploded
underground and there was this
huge uplift and flip over
and that's what
forms the crater.
In the process
it disintegrated.
CHARLIE: Here's a
weird but true fact,
this whole area used
to be covered in this
hard rock sandstone.
Meteor hits, huge explosion,
now everything's pulverized
into this rock flour it's
as fine as the flour you
bake with at home.
Even weirder fact, when
this stuff gets wet it
turns into quicksand.
So, you said
this happened 50,000
years ago, right?
EDUARDO: Right.
The only type of
life form would have been
your Woolly Mammoth.
CHARLIE: Mhmm.
EDUARDO: Bison, reptiles.
Now anything would have not
survived if they were within
a ten to 25-mile radius.
CHARLIE: Whoa!
KIRBY: Whoa!
EDUARDO: Just from the impact.
CHARLIE: So, if people were
around here at the time,
what would it be like?
They'd just be in
a lot of trouble.
EDUARDO: You would
have been toast.
CHARLIE: Toast, been
fried, meteor fried!
EDUARDO: Nada.
CHARLIE: Nothing like spending
the afternoon exploring the
best-preserved crater
on the entire planet with
our new buddy Eduardo.
KIRBY: Eduardo is the man!
He knew everything.
This visit was so amazing.
CHARLIE: Alright guys, we
gotta go back to headquarters,
but we'll see you
in a bit, okay?
Back in a flash!
KIRBY: See you soon.
Weird but true, the
temperature on the moon can
be hotter than boiling water!
CHARLIE: What's up guys?
We just got back from the
Barringer Crater in Arizona.
KIRBY: Eduardo is the man!
CHARLIE: The best!
What about Geoff?
Hunting for meteorites
on the ground!
KIRBY: My boy Geoff!
CHARLIE: What else
did we learn today?
Ah NEOs!
Near earth objects,
we got comets, which
are dirty ice balls.
KIRBY: We got
asteroids, irregularly
shaped planet chunks.
CHARLIE: And meteoroids,
metallic space sand.
KIRBY: And they all
become meteors when they
enter earth's atmosphere.
CHARLIE: And they
become meteorites when
they touch the ground.
Our favorite weird but true
facts we learned today are:
One meteorite hit earth 65
million years ago and wiped
out 80% of earth's species
including the dinosaurs.
KIRBY: Small meteorites fall
to the ground every day.
CHARLIE: Rock flour is super
fine powder that was created
when a meteorite hit the earth
and pulverized the
sandstone rocks.
KIRBY: Charles!
Glow in the dark stars!
CHARLIE: Hey!
KIRBY: This place
is gonna be magic!
CHARLIE: Aw just
like Wisconsin!
KIRBY: This is amazing!
CHARLIE: Ah! Meteorites!
KIRBY: NEOs!
CHARLIE: Impact
event extinction!
Just like the dinosaurs!
How much do you know
about dinosaurs?
KIRBY: Uh not that
much actually.
CHARLIE: I heard
they were feathered.
KIRBY: That's weird.
I wonder if it's true.
CHARLIE: Next project?
KIRBY: Absolutely!
CHARLIE: Alright.
Guys, thanks so much
for stopping by!
Come by again when
we discover more things
that are weird but true!
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