A documenary about Australian Astronomy and Geology... and where they meet!

This is a motorcycle adventure of astronomical proportion...

Written by Mikael Altoff and Leon Munro

In association with

James Cook University, Centre for Astronomy...
University of QLD, Departments of Geology and Physical Sciences...

Featuring the highest IQ's ever assembled for an Australian Doco...

Prof. Fred Watson(AAO), Dr David Malin(AAO), Dr Robert McNaught(NEAR), Prof. Graeme White(JCU), Prof Michael Drinkwater(UQ), Prof Andrew Glikson, Dr Peter Haines, and more...

35 Impact Structures .

Tookoonooka, Talundilly, Mulkara, Lawn Hill, Foelsche, Strangways, Liverpool, Goyder, Matt Wilson Structure, Spider, Bedout High, Piccaninny, Goat Paddock, Wolfe Creek, Snelling, Kelly West, Amelia Creek, Boxhole, Henbury, Gosses Bluff, Mt Toondina, Veevers, Connolly Basin, Glikson, Shoemaker, Yarrabubba, Dalgaranga, Woodleigh, Yallalie Basin, Lake Acraman, Flaxman, Crawford, Mt Darwin, Wilkes Land.

26,000 km of road ... Brisbane to Brisbane

Brisbane, Glasshouse, Bundaberg Volcanics, Atherton Tablelands, Undara Lava Tubes, Lawn Hill NP, Riversleigh Fossils,Camooweal Caves, The Savana Way, Lost City, Katherine Gorge, Arnhem Land, Kakadu, The Kimberley, Bungle Bungle Ranges, Tanami Desert, Alice Springs, Pine Gap, Uluru and Kata Tjuta, The Oodnadatta Track, The Canning Stock Route, The Square Kilometer Array, Monkie Mia, Learmonth Solar Observatory, Mt Augustus, Australian International Gravitational Observatory, Perth-Lowell Observatory, The Nullabor Plain, Great Australian Bite, Barrossa Valley, Eureka Stockade, The Great Ocean Road, Trans-Tasman Ferry, Gordon Franklin National Park, Frenchmans Cap, Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communications Centre, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Sydney Nepean and Linden Observatories, Genolan Caves, THE DISH- Parkes, Anglo-Australian Telescope, Astro-golf, National Australia Telescope Array, Byron Bay, Mt Warning, Gold Coast, Brisbane.

Why???...

Since the formation of the crust of the Earth four thousand million years ago (4000Mya), the Australian continental plate has exsisted. It is believed that meteorites and comets striking the planet since its creation, as well as volcanics, contributed to the building blocks needed for the evolution of the biosphere and life itself.

If the Earth was to collide with something made of rock, about the size of a house, travelling through our part of space at 15km/s, it would release the same amount of energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It would create a crater 300 metres across and level the City of Sydney.

In 1908, an object this size exploded over Siberia and levelled a forest. In 2002 the same thing happenned over the Mediterranean Sea but without the forest. Both of these released a similar amount of energy to the above. Had they been made of rock or iron instead of ice then they would surely have hit the ground with much more devastating results.

The evolution of the solar system continues as more than four tonnes of matter falls to Earth from space every day as fine ground dust.

Of the more than 200 impact craters so far discovered on the surface of Earth, there are more than 30 found in Australia. This is the largest concentration found on the planet and more than enough reason to go and have a look at them.

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Australia ... 4000 million years in the making,

IMPACT ... 8 weeks to film it


Directed by Christian Ronquillo
Animation by Michael Karban and Christian Ronquillo
Director of Photography Kyle Faulkner
Cameraman Alex

Now in PRE-PRODUCTION...

Hitting the Road in April 2008...