Issues: Asteroid & comet impacts
Online resources to help you understand the threat posed to humanity by asteroid and comet impacts wiping out civilisation.
- Near-miss for Earth as asteroid skims world on Friday 13th November 2020. [web page]
- Asteroid 2001 FO32 to give Earth another close shave. [web page]
- An Earth near-miss asteroid was totally missed by astronomers, [web page]
- Asteroid 2021 SG comes out of nowhere to narrowly miss the Earth. [web page]
- DART asteroid buster launch is delayed until 2022. [web page]
- The DART mission is NASA's first serious asteroid intervention. [web page]
- A slew of newly spotted asteroids are coming at Earth. [web page]
- Dinosaur slayer not an asteroid, but a comet, suggests new research. [web page]
- Asteroid Apophis won't cause an ELE for another century. But, that's not the only rock threatening Earth. [web page]
- Mile-long asteroid on close-Earth approach for March 2021. [video]
- ELE-level asteroids are more common than we previously thought, scientists find. [web page]
- Blasting asteroids with nukes to divert them from Earth impacting is an old idea - one that China wants to take into reality. [web page]
- New systems needed for anti-asteroid operations. [web page]
- NASA CNEOS: Center for Near-Earth Object Studies [web site]
- What happens if the biggest comet in the Solar System collides with the planet Earth? [web page]
- Making asteroid impacts a thing of the past: and surviving them if you can't. [web page]
- The mission to avoid an asteroid Armageddon is going remarkably smoothly, according to NASA. [web page]
- Asteroid 2001 F032 on close-Earth approach. [web page]
- NASA has predicted the timing and location of a tiny asteroid's collision with the Earth. [web page]
- The Center for Near Earth Object Studies is simulating the world's response to an actual asteroid impact prediction. [web page]
- Using existing bus-sized high-orbit sats to slam asteroids away could divert an ELE. [web page]
- NASA's asteroid deflection strategy is veering towards multiple redirector strikes, now. [web page]
- What would happen if a large meteor hit Earth today? [video]
- According to NASA, an asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will pass Earth on Thursday. [web page]
- Researchers have developed an algorithm that can examine historical astronomical photographs for undiscovered space rocks, potentially posing a threat to Earth in the future. [web page]
- Because to a peculiarity in the planet's spin, asteroids may be nearing Earth unnoticed. [web page]
- Because to a peculiarity in the planet's spin, asteroids may be nearing Earth unnoticed. [web page]
- China jumps into the asteroid defence race to save Earth (or at least, the Chinese). [web page]
- Asteroid deflection science to be tested on 780-meter asteroid Didymos. [web page]
- NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office [web site]
- Why an asteroid strike on Earth is our greatest threat. [video]
- NASA builds out Double Asteroid Redirection Test to save Earth. [web page]
- NASA's Sentry-II is a big step forward in determining the chances of a small asteroid colliding with the Earth under a variety of extinction scenarios. [web page]
- A mega-comet is on the way, but would it be too large to stop? [web page]
- A approximately 70-meter asteroid became the most dangerous detected in over a decade for a few stressful days in January 2022. [web page]
- Massive comet on solar system pass-through. [web page]
- The Spaceguard Centre [web site]
- After a super-close pass by Earth, the orbit of a tiny asteroid is irreversibly altered. [web page]
- Can a private dangerous asteroid tracking program make a difference to the next Deep Impact-type scenario? [web page]
- Asteroid deflection mission DART may be the first step towards a comprehensive planetary-defense initiative. [web page]
- Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid in upcoming close brush with Earth. [web page]
- Asteroid disaster simulation plan ends badly for sim-Earth. [web page]
- An asteroid strike might completely devastate a metropolitan area. [web page]
- Asteroid diversion will rely on nudges rather than fireworks. [video]
- Where an asteroid strikes can be as important as its mass, says new research. [web page]
- NASA MISSED a football-field-sized asteroid that flew by Earth earlier this month because it was obscured by the sun, but the agency claims that its forthcoming telescope will capture such things in the future? [web page]
- ATLAS, NASA's asteroid warning system, has been improved to continuously monitor the whole night sky for oncoming space objects that might endanger life on Earth. [web page]
- NEA Scout to probe asteroids using a solar sail. [web page]
- Early interventions are needed to protect humanity from asteroid ELEs. [web page]
- Using the Apophis asteroid for a deflection dry run. [web page]
- There was a city blown to pieces by an asteroid: it happened a long time ago. [web page]
- The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came with a one-mile high Tsunami - yikes. [web page]
- A mile-high tsunami hit the Earth when the dinosaur-slaying asteroid struck our planet. [web page]
- Apophis asteroid on another close Earth approach. [web page]
- Asteroid deflection test-run by NASA. [video]
- ESA funds Hera planetary defense mission [web page]
- The Pi Terminal Defense for Humanity system is being explored by NASA - taking a shotgun approach to destroying incoming asteroids and comets. [web page]
- Tonight, an asteroid the size of Big Ben will slam into Earth's orbit. [web page]
- We've just reached the technical threshold where humanity might be able to deflect a comet or asteroid from the Earth. [web page]
- The Apophis asteroid will be passing close enough to Earth to hit our satellites. How sure can we be it won't impact our planet? [video]
- Is it possible to divert an asteroid that is coming towards Earth? NASA's newest DART mission is explained by a NASA specialist. [web page]
- Earth's chances of an ELE just increased as NASA delays the Near Earth Object Surveyor. [web page]
- A gigantic comet, the biggest ever discovered, was just found by astronomers. It isn't currently on a collision path with Earth, but what if it were? Would we be able to deflect it? [video]
- NASA to get new asteroid defender space telescope. [web page]
- Asteroid defence researchers revisit nuclear warheads. [web page]
- The history of humanity is littered with more catastrophic asteroid impacts and climate change events than we care to currently acknowledge. [video]
- NASA's DART spacecraft slams with an asteroid travelling at 14,000mph and 6.8 million kilometres from Earth in maiden planetary defence test. [web page]
- If an asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth, astronomers could conduct a deflection, in which the asteroid is gently pushed by a relatively modest change in velocity while the mass of the asteroid remains intact. [web page]
- Dark primitive asteroids shown to be a major threat to the Earth. [web page]
- How is humanity's Planetary Defence plan coming along? [video]
- Earth says good-bye to the Dart mission, as it speeds off to its target asteroid. [video]
- Earth-dangerous meteors seems to be coming from the same zone in space. [web page]
- Using the Trojan asteroids to help Earth's asteroid defence system. [video]
