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>> i would train more scientists and engineers to solve these problems so that we don't 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, it's something that should have been on the docket decades ago. it's not a new thing that earth travels in a shooting gallery, our solar system. of the astroids, most astroids in the solar system are found in this zone, a belt we call it between the orbits of mars and jupi...

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 is within 1.8 million miles of the surface. For those keeping track at home, that means that the ast...

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 near earth objects have been identified and discovered. 868 of those with diameters of at least one ki...

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. we're 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 after. do you know they knew about this, the scientists here, 15 years ago? guys and ladies here doing ...