By Karah Leigh - @karahontheradio
Asteroid entering blue`s planet atmosphere
According to NASA, if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, we d all be pretty much done for.
The agency just completed a weeklong simulation looking at various scenarios - and concluded that we wouldn t 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 working on new technology called DART - Double Asteroid Redirection Test - that could potentially redirect an asteroid s orbit to prevent a threat to Earth.
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An international exercise to simulate an asteroid striking Earth has come to an end. With just six days to go before a fictitious impact, things don’t look good for a 185-mile-wide region between Prague and Munich.
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Two years ago, the organizers of this event accidentally destroyed New York City, and now it’s time for a border region intersecting Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic to meet the same fate. When I covered the early days of this week’s simulation on Wednesday, the gathered experts were weighing their options as a 460-foot-wide asteroid barreled toward Central Europe.
An Asteroid Impact Simulation Is Currently Underway and It’s Absolutely Terrifying
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A fictitious asteroid is headed our way, and a group of real experts is currently doing their best to deal with the grim situation. The week-long tabletop exercise, now in its third day, aims to find out whether our current technologies, systems, and institutions could handle the crisis if an actual asteroid were to threaten Earth any time soon.
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