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>> i would train more scientists and engineers to solve these problems so that we dont have to worry about how to survive them if we present vent them from happening. >> tell us about this how does it work and two, is it late if people feel like this has been something to worry about, why is it happening now? >> well, yeah, its something that should have been on the docket decades ago. its not a new thing that earth travels in a shooting gallery, our solar system. of the astroids, most astroids ...

Researchers at the Zwicky Transient Facility have found an asteroid in Earth's orbit. And this one has the shortest year yet. HowStuffWorks explains.

Giant Asteroid To Pass Close By Earth On Christmas Day According To NASA ✖ CTV News brings word that NASA reports of a "massive asteroid" perhaps larger than two football fields is closing in on our location and will be passing by Earth tomorrow, Christmas Day. Known as asteroid 501647 and also designated as "2014 SD224," the asteroid will be at its closest to Earth at around 3:20 P.M. ET. The good news is that the asteroid is not going to make contact with Earth and the closest it will come ...

Russia last year was just 30 meters in diameter and scientists say that explosion carried more energy than a large atomic bombs which is why hundreds of millions of buildings were damaged. nasa and the jet propulsion laboratory in california actively on the hunt for potential planet killers the near earth object program and it continues to recruit other nations, universities, observatories, even astronomers to look up and out into our gl axe and beyond looking for threats. so far near 181,000 ne...

Case they miscalculated. >> are you actually hurtling through space right now? >> i am. you know, jake, we all are. >> very wise. you are very wise. thank you. were just about six minutes away from the asteroid fly by. few people have been watching closer than the folks at the jet propulsion lab in pasadena, california. the fly by is the exciting part for us but for the scientists the real interesting stuff comes after the asteroid has already passed us. right? >> you could argue before and afte...

To a million out there that we have not yet identified all of which the focus of nasas near he earth objects program. >> it is not coming unusually close to the earth but going to be about 15 times the distance from the earth to the moon. the interesting part about it is it is so large for an asteroid, it is huge. >> a lot being done publicly and privately to prepare for the direct impact asteroid of the future. some plans call for sending a rocket or space craft into space to collide with it or...

Earth objects, large, large asteroids that are out there that they are watching and theyve been able to basically see about 95% of those. they know where they are. the scientists here did calculations years in advance. this particular one, the 1998 qe-2 as it is called was discovered 15 years ago and they knew then because of their calculations, calculus by the way, that it would not hit earth. theyve known it for a very long time. what they are excited about is it is coming very close in scient...

Discovered nine days ago, thats the unsettling aspect. and you can see, we did talk about how close it was, not that close, 2 1/2 times the distance between the earth and the moon. but it was recently discovered. and thats the interesting point well talk to lawrence about. >> yeah, and thats really the concern, lawrence. because theres this -- you wonder, what do you call them? near earth objects? there are a number of them that are actually potentially hazardous. if you only find out on sunday ...

And im assuming youre going to tell me its not some sort of intervention that involves bruce willis and ben affleck. >> its not that different. the point is -- its true, we didnt see this one until sunday. this one, even though it would cause a significant amount of devastation is not large enough to be planet threatening. the ones large enough to be planet threatening 10 kilometers across or something like that, those we could see a few years in advance, probably. and there are various ways, in...

Years before. these two objects have put a new spotlight on objects that pose a risk to earth on any given day. most burns up or is so small we dont know it. nasa is aware of some 20,000 pieces of debris that are currently orbiting the earth that are the size of a softball or large. but the real concern is around neos or near earth objects or asteroids that could conceivably enter our atmosphere. 863 are asteroids with a diameter roughly half a mile or larger, which if they struck earth, could p...