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The space rock, called 2016 AJ193, is due to be travelling at tens of thousands of miles per hour when it safely zooms past our planet.

by Tyler Durden Friday, Jul 09, 2021 - 10:40 PM Scientists at Chinas National Space Science Centre (NSSC) want to send more than 20 rockets into outer space and simultaneously use their kinetic impact to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid, according to Reuters.  NSSC used computer simulations with 23 Long March 5 rockets (each weighing 900 tons) to simultaneously hit and deflect an asteroid dubbed Bennu, a class of rocks that is as wide as the Empire State Building.   Researchers have studied ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Friday that the agency has approved a new infrared space telescope in the effort to help advance planetary defense efforts. 

An asteroid potentially the size of the Eiffel Tower is set to blast past Earth tonight with stargazers kee...

Asteroid Potentially Bigger Than the Eiffel Tower to Fly Past Earth Next Week On 5/28/21 at 9:14 AM EDT An asteroid potentially taller than the Eiffel Tower is due to fly past Earth next month. The huge space rock, known as 2021 KT1, will make a close approach to our planet on June 1 at around 10:24 a.m. EDT. In cosmic terms, the word "close" is relative. Although NASA includes the pass in its "close approaches" data table, the asteroid will in fact zoom past the Earth at a distance of around 4...

Published 10 May 2021 Scientists are working to develop methods to prevent asteroids from wreaking havoc on Earth. “We know that currently, the U.S. has many knowledge and capability gaps for planetary defense readiness,” says one expert.. “The work we are doing today, and the opportunity to discuss that work with the broader international community at venues like the IAA Planetary Defense Conference (PDC), is helping to close these gaps.” Ten scientists from Lawrence Livermore Natio...

LLNL Simulations of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which will crash into asteroid Dimorphos in fall 2022, show the differences between modeling the full spacecraft geometry and a spherical approximation of the spacecraft. Credit: Mike Owen, Spheral ASPH code. Ten scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) last week took part in the 7 th IAA Planetary Defense Conference (PDC), hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in cooperation with the European Space Agency....

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

By big rig May 5, 2021 According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, wed all be pretty much done for. The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldnt be able to stop an asteroid using current technology - even with six months of advance notice. Evacuating the impact area would be our only option - and NASA says governments are "dreadfully unprepared" for such a scenario. However, the agency is workin...

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