How an asteroid could wipe out life on Earth – and what we’re doing about it
1 month, 3 weeks ago

How an asteroid could wipe out life on Earth – and what we’re doing about it

The Independent  

Even as the asteroid hurtled towards Earth, we were arguing. Knowing all the information about the asteroid, including the risk it posed, would require quick action and substantial funding – but it would be hard to convince those in power to spend time and money on a threat that couldn’t be quantified. “Many stakeholders expressed that they would want as much information about the asteroid as soon as possible but expressed skepticism that funding would be forthcoming to obtain such information without more definitive knowledge of the risk,” Nasa’s report on the test notes. The most famous and successful of them was Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, a $330 million mission that in 2022 collided with Dimorphos, a moon around the asteroid Didymos. They didn’t pose any kind of threat to Earth, but the test allowed scientists to see whether we might be able to change the path of an asteroid that did – and it was successful.

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‘City killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say
1 month ago

‘City killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 …

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say
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1 month ago

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. NASA had it down to 0.0027% — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and …

Phew! Nasa confirms Earth is safe as asteroid threat drops to near zero
1 month ago

Phew! Nasa confirms Earth is safe as asteroid threat drops to near zero

India Today  

Weeks after scientists across the world raced to track an asteroid projected to collide with Earth in 2032, Nasa has lowered its chances of hitting the planet. Nasa has significantly reduced the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in near zero at just 0.004%. The US space agency's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies had earlier listed the chance …

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero
1 month ago

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero

NPR  

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero toggle caption AP/ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had a better than 3% chance of striking Earth in 2032 is no longer a concern. It crossed an important threshold last month …

Nasa upgrades chances of ‘city destroying’ asteroid hitting Earth - now the highest in agency’s history
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1 month ago

Nasa upgrades chances of ‘city destroying’ asteroid hitting Earth - now the highest in agency’s history

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, now lists the chance of a collision in …

Earth is safe, but Moon not yet: New collision risk for city-killer asteroid
1 month ago

Earth is safe, but Moon not yet: New collision risk for city-killer asteroid

India Today  

A new assessment by Nasa has drastically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth. The new assessment lowers the risk of the asteroid hitting Earth from over three per cent to just 0.28 per cent as astronomers refine their data with latest observations. "Nasa’s planetary defense teams will continue to monitor the asteroid to improve our predictions …

Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100 million people live in risk corridor, Nasa data shows
1 month ago

Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100 million people live in risk corridor, Nasa data shows

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.6 per cent chance of hitting Earth on 22 December, 2032, …

Warning from NASA: Huge asteroid to impact Earth by 2032, predicting to be a City-Killer
1 month, 1 week ago

Warning from NASA: Huge asteroid to impact Earth by 2032, predicting to be a City-Killer

India TV News  

Warning from NASA: Huge asteroid to impact Earth by 2032, predicting to be a City-Killer While NASA’s latest estimates indicate a slight increase in risk, experts continue to believe that as more data is gathered, the impact probability will drop to 0 per cent. NASA’s data suggests that December 22, 2032, is the potential impact date if the asteroid were …

Asteroid headed towards Earth could smash into the Moon, scientists say
1 month, 1 week ago

Asteroid headed towards Earth could smash into the Moon, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New calculations suggest that a large asteroid recently predicted to have an increased …

More ‘City-killer’ asteroid warnings emerge amid added fears of Moon impact: No time for NASA to deflect it?
1 month, 1 week ago

More ‘City-killer’ asteroid warnings emerge amid added fears of Moon impact: No time for NASA to deflect it?

Hindustan Times  

The fear-inspiring ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4, likely bigger than the Statue of Liberty, now has a higher risk of hitting Earth on December 22, 2031, per scientists’ upgraded predictions. According to the International Asteroid Warning Network, the space rock’s “risk corridor” spans the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and South Asia, Forbes …

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 just went slightly up
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 just went slightly up

Salon  

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. "It's likely less energetic than even the modest Chelyabinsk impactor from earlier this century," Siegel said, observing that we still haven’t adequately measured 2024 YR4’s potential collision course, so scientists must treat any potential unwanted trespassers with the …

NASA warns chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 have INCREASED yet again
1 month, 2 weeks ago

NASA warns chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 have INCREASED yet again

Daily Mail  

It might sound like something from the plot of the apocalyptic science fiction blockbuster, Don't Look Up. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with our planet have crept up to 2.3 per cent. NASA has warned that the probability of the 'City Killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is …

Could cause severe damage: Asteroid cruising toward Earth, Nasa assessing risk
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Could cause severe damage: Asteroid cruising toward Earth, Nasa assessing risk

India Today  

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a one per cent chance of hitting Earth, Nasa has said adding that the initial analysis will change over time as more observations are gathered. Estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, Asteroid 2024 YR4 grabbed the attention of astronomers when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list on December 31, 2024. …

Could an asteroid wipe out life on Earth – and what are we doing about it?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Could an asteroid wipe out life on Earth – and what are we doing about it?

The Independent  

Even as the asteroid hurtled towards Earth, we were arguing. Last month, for instance, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that was spotted just hours before it crashed into us – it was so small that it burnt up in the sky without posing any danger, but it was a widely-heralded reminder of the danger that might come with …

Earth is poorly prepared for asteroid strike - even if we had an advance warning of 14 years, official report finds
9 months ago

Earth is poorly prepared for asteroid strike - even if we had an advance warning of 14 years, official report finds

Daily Mail  

Being wiped out by a massive space rock that hits Earth at thousands of miles an hour is one of the ways humanity could go extinct. On average, Earth is hit by a football pitch-sized rock every 5,000 years, and a civilisation-ending asteroid every one million years, according to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman, a …

NASA's big statement on astroids threat, no large asteroids identified that could cause damage, but if that happens…
9 months ago

NASA's big statement on astroids threat, no large asteroids identified that could cause damage, but if that happens…

Hindustan Times  

Imagine if scientists found a massive asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting Earth in 14 years—a space rock so large it could obliterate a city and wreak havoc across an entire region. NASA says earth safe from any asteroid threat for the next one century This is the hypothetical scenario that NASA experts, federal emergency managers, and their international …

NASA says 280-foot asteroid set to approach Earth! Know how close it will get
11 months ago

NASA says 280-foot asteroid set to approach Earth! Know how close it will get

Hindustan Times  

While small asteroids keep zipping past Earth at fairly regular intervals some of the bigger ones are not that frequent. And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth tomorrow, April 21. That the danger is real is clear from the fact that …

Bennu Asteroid To Hit Earth After 159 Years With Force Equal To 22 Atomic Bombs: NASA
1 year, 5 months ago

Bennu Asteroid To Hit Earth After 159 Years With Force Equal To 22 Atomic Bombs: NASA

News 18  

We come across numerous bizarre stories on the internet every day, and predictions about the end of the world have been a recurring theme throughout such claims. The recent news that an asteroid named Bennu is projected to collide with Earth in 159 years, specifically on September 24, 2182, causing worldwide extinction, has captured widespread attention. NASA, however, emphasised that …

’Enough to wipe a city’, catastrophic asteroid set to pass Earth
2 years ago

’Enough to wipe a city’, catastrophic asteroid set to pass Earth

Live Mint  

An asteroid with enough size to destroy a city will pass through the space between the Earth and the moon's orbit on Saturday. The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, was found just a month ago and is set to have a close encounter with the moon on Saturday, passing within a distance of 320,000 miles. “There is no chance of this …

2023 DZ2 Asteroid that could wipe out a city to fly by earth this weekend
2 years ago

2023 DZ2 Asteroid that could wipe out a city to fly by earth this weekend

The Hindu  

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies. Discovered a month ago, the asteroid known as 2023 DZ2 will pass within 320,000 miles of the moon on Saturday and, several hours later, buzz the Indian Ocean at about 17,500 mph. “There is no chance …

Full impact of NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission revealed in new studies
2 years ago

Full impact of NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission revealed in new studies

ABC  

NASA's real-life Armageddon mission to move an asteroid off course was even more of a smashing success than early results indicated. Key points: NASA's DART mission smashed into a tiny asteroid last year Five new studies reveal more details about the impact site, dust tail, and just how far the space rock moved The mission gives scientists an idea about …

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

The Hindu  

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, said NASA …

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
2 years, 5 months ago

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

LA Times  

The asteroid Dimorphos is seen as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft flies toward it on Sept. 26, 2022. A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready …

Explained | The NASA spacecraft-asteroid collision
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | The NASA spacecraft-asteroid collision

The Hindu  

The story so far: On September 27, at 4:44 am IST, the DART spacecraft collided with the space rock Dimorphos. NASA has confirmed that the collision of the auto-rickshaw sized 600 kilogram weighing DART, on the football stadium-sized Dimorphos, about five billion kilogram in mass, has deflected the trajectory of the pair of space rocks. If one can tug a …

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA DART is first step to avert asteroid strike on Earth: Indian scientists

Live Mint  

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday successfully crashed into an asteroid. "NASA's DART mission is a step towards preparing the world for a potential future asteroid strike like the one which killed dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the chances of which are very slim in our lifetime," Indian scientists said. …

NASA crashes DART spacecraft to experiment planetary defence tech for future asteroid impacts
2 years, 5 months ago

NASA crashes DART spacecraft to experiment planetary defence tech for future asteroid impacts

Op India  

On September 26, a spacecraft launched by NASA crashed into an asteroid. Around ten months ago, the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a $344 million spacecraft under a mission codenamed Double Asteroid Redirection Test with an aim to intentionally crash it on an asteroid. Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully …

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

The Hindu  

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Dart, the Impactor The Johns Hopkins lab took a minimalist approach in developing Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. Another spacecraft, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is loaded into …

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained: NASA's 'save the world' experiment which will see a spacecraft crash into an asteroid

Firstpost  

NASA plans to crash a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The aim is just to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock — demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we’d stand a fighting chance of diverting it Cape Canaveral: In the first-of-its-kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to …

Why Is A NASA Spacecraft Crashing Into An Asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why Is A NASA Spacecraft Crashing Into An Asteroid?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. “This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it’s real,” NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday. “This really is about asteroid …

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. “This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of “StarTrek” from when I was a kid, and now it’s real,” NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday. “This really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption,” …

EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. DART, THE IMPACTOR Johns Hopkins …

Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday
2 years, 6 months ago

Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid Monday

LA Times  

This illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube, bottom right, before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. DART, the impactor Johns Hopkins took a minimalist approach in developing DART — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — given that it’s essentially a battering ram and faces sure destruction. An illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe on …

NASA will crash a $488 million spacecraft into an asteroid. Here's why
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA will crash a $488 million spacecraft into an asteroid. Here's why

ABC  

In eight days NASA will deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid in a $US330 million attempt to change the asteroid's course. It's the world's first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid collisions. DART is the world's first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid collisions. There's 0 per cent chance …

NASA’s DART asteroid-hunting mission can turn disastrous…: Read here why
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA’s DART asteroid-hunting mission can turn disastrous…: Read here why

Live Mint  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will hit a target asteroid on 26 September. An HT Tech report cited, in their 1964 book Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids, astronomers Dandridge Cole and Donald Cox envisioned manoeuvring asteroids to serve as the ultimate …

NASA's asteroid deflection test explained
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA's asteroid deflection test explained

Daily Mail  

Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid in a bid to throw it off course may evoke memories of a Hollywood disaster movie such as Armageddon or Deep Impact. It is the US space agency's first ever attempt at such a mission and will involve a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth at 15,000mph in two weeks' …

NASA on track to smash a spacecraft into a giant asteroid at 15,000mph next month
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA on track to smash a spacecraft into a giant asteroid at 15,000mph next month

Daily Mail  

NASA's first ever 'planetary defence' spacecraft – sent to deflect an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth – is on course to smash into the space rock at 15,000mph next month. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was launched last November ahead of an almost year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos. …

NASA to crash spacecraft on asteroid to divert its movement: Where to watch
2 years, 7 months ago

NASA to crash spacecraft on asteroid to divert its movement: Where to watch

Live Mint  

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will hit a target asteroid on 26 September. DART will provide important data to help better prepare for an asteroid that might pose an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered, NASA said about the mission in …

Explained: Why is Nasa intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid
3 years, 4 months ago

Explained: Why is Nasa intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid

India Today  

When the Dart mission launches on November 24, scientists will be on their toes to attempt a first of its kind event in deep space - crashing a spacecraft purposely in an asteroid. As the spacecraft hits the celestial object, scientists are hoping it will change the orbit of the asteroid and demonstrate a unique planetary defence system. The Didymos …

NASA is pulling a "Deep Impact": New spacecraft will test asteroid deflection methods
3 years, 4 months ago

NASA is pulling a "Deep Impact": New spacecraft will test asteroid deflection methods

Salon  

Among existential threats to humanity, asteroid impacts rank high — in part because they've caused extinction-level events on Earth so many times before. To that end, NASA is launching a spacecraft to test means of neutralizing such a threat, using methods similar to those seen in the 1998 big-budget asteroid disaster movies "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact." That is why engineers …

Nasa asteroid simulation ends in unavoidable disaster for Earth
3 years, 10 months ago

Nasa asteroid simulation ends in unavoidable disaster for Earth

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “These exercises ultimately help the planetary defence community communicate with each other and with our governments to …

Asteroid Apophis Won’t Crash Down on Earth in 2068, Twitter Can't Decide if It's Good News or Bad
3 years, 11 months ago

Asteroid Apophis Won’t Crash Down on Earth in 2068, Twitter Can't Decide if It's Good News or Bad

News 18  

The US space agency NASA recently assured that the Earth is safe from the asteroid Apophis for at least a century. “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore, and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years,” Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies. Learn more: https://t.co/6a7zxeSLYF pic.twitter.com/EX8KXlXpWP— …

An asteroid that could wipe out a country will just miss Earth this week
4 years ago

An asteroid that could wipe out a country will just miss Earth this week

Salon  

An asteroid the size of the Pentagon is headed our way. "By getting so close to Earth, it will be very bright in the sky," Dr. Tom Burbine, a senior research associate who studies asteroids at the Planetary Science Institute, told Salon by email. "The scientific significance of asteroids coming extremely close to Earth mean that astronomers can study them …

Asteroid's moon gets a name before NASA's DART mission crashes into it in 2022
4 years, 8 months ago

Asteroid's moon gets a name before NASA's DART mission crashes into it in 2022

Firstpost  

The DART mission will target the near-Earth asteroid’s moon Dimorphos when it relatively close In the second half of 2022. NASA’s DART will crash into Dimorphos In the second half of 2022, the near-Earth asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos will be relatively close of Earth. “That’s the key measurement that will tell us how the asteroid responded to our …

Massive asteroids JF1, Apophis to graze Earth in 2020s; planetary defence courtesy NASA, ESA still underway
5 years, 4 months ago

Massive asteroids JF1, Apophis to graze Earth in 2020s; planetary defence courtesy NASA, ESA still underway

Firstpost  

The Earth is no stranger to close encounters with space rocks. Near-Earth asteroids that will come fairly “close” but not collide with Earth, too, are listed in a detailed and exhaustive database called the ‘Close Approaches’ database, managed by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Objects Studies. There’s another “potentially hazardous” asteroid 99942 Apophis — 340-m wide — which will make a …

Massive asteroid approaching Earth could kill millions of people, cause extensive damage
5 years, 6 months ago

Massive asteroid approaching Earth could kill millions of people, cause extensive damage

India TV News  

An asteroid, that could make an impact is said to be heading towards Earth this Halloween. The approaching asteroid is now being referred to as the “Halloween asteroid” and is being classified as a moderate threat to Earth, with NASA describing that it will “fortunately miss us.” If it ever makes an impact, the 'Halloween asteroid' is certain to cause …

How well prepared are we to deal with a catastrophic asteroid strike?
5 years, 8 months ago

How well prepared are we to deal with a catastrophic asteroid strike?

ABC  

Dotted along Sydney's coastal cliffs are derelict, sealed World War II bunkers. Key points: There's growing interest in studying "existential risks" like asteroid impacts We're learning how destructive they can be, how commonly they strike and how to predict them It's conceivable we could prevent some catastrophic disasters — if we have enough warning Nick Sais believes they're the kind …

Asteroids: What experts want you to know about the threat
5 years, 8 months ago

Asteroids: What experts want you to know about the threat

CNN  

CNN — For the first time, astronomers have shown that telescopes could provide enough warning to allow people to move away from an asteroid strike on Earth. Astronomers at the University of Hawaii used the ATLAS and Pan-STARRS survey telescopes to detect a small asteroid before it entered Earth’s atmosphere on the morning of June 22. Asteroid awareness Sunday is …

Huge asteroid destroys New York in Nasa simulation after scientists fail to deflect it
5 years, 10 months ago

Huge asteroid destroys New York in Nasa simulation after scientists fail to deflect it

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa scientists and other world experts have failed to protect New York from …

HOW IS NASA STEPPING UP ITS EFFORTS TO STOP DEADLY ASTEROIDS HITTING EARTH?
6 years, 9 months ago

HOW IS NASA STEPPING UP ITS EFFORTS TO STOP DEADLY ASTEROIDS HITTING EARTH?

Daily Mail  

The US government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents. The initiative backed by Nasa, federal emergency officials, and the White House aims to coordinate efforts over the next 10 years to detect and respond to possible threats in Earth's vicinity, should they arise. The U.S. government …

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