During this season of pandemic and climatic global disasters, it's worth considering our preparedness for the worst reasonably-possible disaster: A large asteroid slamming into our planet.
Were a giant asteroid to appear on a collision course, it's likely we'd have more than days but less than decades to avoid it. The importance of early detection has led to a variety of private and government efforts to detect asteroids that might impact us.
Earth's asteroid defense may work better than previously believed, new simulation shows
The launch of a SpaceX rocket taking a NASA spacecraft to an asteroid was captured by a wildfire camera on November 23, with the bright flash briefly lighting up the nighttime footage.(Credit: ALERTWildfire via Storyful)
Following the launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) asteroid defense mission in November of 2021, researchers in Switzerland created a simulation that predicts the method of deflecting a large asteroid away from Earth may work far better than previously believed.
How an asteroid near-miss shocked the UN - Academia - The Jakarta Post
On the morning of 15 February 2013 a research team in central Europe was preparing its final recommendations to a United Nations subcommittee on establishing an international response mechanism to prepare for an asteroid impact on Earth.
The atmosphere protects Earth from asteroids 30 metres across or smaller – most of the time. The one that exploded over Chelyabinsk was 14 metres to 17 metres across.
Chaplet / World Asteroid Day - Relevant Radio
NBC2 Animation: Marking the Siberian asteroid anniversary - NBC2 News
Simulations show that asteroid impacts would destroy evidence for relic shorelines on Mars – ...
If ancient shorelines exist on Mars, they would be largely scoured from view by billions of years of asteroid impacts. That is according to a new study by researchers in the US, who used computer modelling to simulate eons of cratering on the Martian surface.
Since the 1990s, some planetary scientists have argued that certain landforms and surface features on Mars are the relic edges of dried-up oceans that covered huge swathes of the Red Planet.
Asteroid's 'unique trajectory' created world's longest meteorite field in China | The Star
When an asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere – probably long ago – above what is today's Altay area of Xinjiang , in the far west of China, the thermal shock ripped it apart and created one of the world's biggest iron meteor showers.
Fragments – some weighing 20 tonnes and some just tens of kilograms – were scattered across a vast expanse that spans some 430km (267 miles), the longest known meteorite field.
NASA announces launch delay for Psyche asteroid mission
$1 billion mission is planned to feature deep space optical communications demo; NASA now "assessing options".
Not yet: illustration of Psyche spacecraft with five-Panel array.
NASA announced on June 24 that its planned Psyche asteroid mission – the agency's first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid a – will not make its planned 2022 launch attempt.
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