Prof Alan Fitzsimmons will explain the details of an international trial asteroid deflection at an online event marking World Asteroid Day.
Prof Alan Fitzsimmons is helping to answer just that. Working from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, Fitzsimmons is involved in two upcoming space missions that will measure how hard it is to deflect an asteroid.
Asteroid Deflection: How NASA, ESA Prepare for the Space Occurrence? | Science Times
The Astrophysics Research Center at Queen's University Belfast's Professor Alan Fitzsimmons will explain at the upcoming World Asteroid Day, an online event, the details of an international experimental asteroid deflection.
Also explained in this report is the Didymos system, a pair of asteroids initially noted in 1996, and will be the subjects of trials that could one day be utilized to avoid a collision of asteroids.
Never-before-seen colossal comet on a trek toward the sun | Space
A new visitor is swinging by the solar system: a never-before-observed comet that hails from the Oort Cloud.
This alien object was just designated as a comet Wednesday (June 23), only a week after astronomers first observed it as a tiny, moving dot in archival images from the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Researchers aim to move an asteroid
Irish professor part of space mission to deflect asteroid - Irish Mirror Online
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An asteroid strike on Earth may be avoidable thanks to new technology that will be launched into space this year.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queens University Belfast will be involved in two space missions to determine how difficult it is to deflect an asteroid.
Has a Devastating Asteroid Impact Affected Who We Are Today? | Al Bawaba
Experts believe that a cosmic impact that hit Earth 13,000 years ago may have been so devastating it changed humans from nomads to settlers.
The research notes that the impact from the event - which likely triggered the Younger Dryas climate shift - was potentially the most 'devastating impact since the extinction of the dinosaurs' and resulted in a mini Ice Age that lasted more than 1,000 years.
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Did a huge comet impact ignite civilisation on Earth as we know it? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Roughly 13,000 years ago, a comet struck the Earth, wreaking havoc, extinction and climate change across the planet. It may also have nudged human populations on a path to civilisation as we know it today.
A new review supports a 2007 hypothesis for the so-called Younger Dryas impact, possibly the most devastating cosmic collision since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs .
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