04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... test a technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts - launched last November will deflect a known asteroid, which is not a threat to Earth, to slightly change the asteroid’s motion in a way that can be accurately measured using...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... stated co-founders Dr. Brian May, Danica Remy, Grig Richters and Rusty Schweickart in an interview earlier this year. “Asteroid impacts are the only natural disaster we know how to prevent if we, as the crew of Spaceship Earth work together towards...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
.... Events are scheduled during the week of 30 June, the date of the largest asteroid impact of Earth in recorded history (Tunguska). In just five years, Asteroid Day has evolved to include the participation of all major national space agencies, ESA...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... metals. In the last few years alone, astronomical lunar observations have revealed 222 new craters of asteroid impacts, a quarter of which, according to experts, consist of rare-earth metals. Furthermore, Professor Shevchenko hypothesises that rare...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... basic techniques that could inform future ‘slow push/pull’ planetary defence operations to prevent a hazardous asteroid impact on Earth. Option A allows for demonstration of an ion beam deflection method to manoeuvre or possibly de-spin the small...
12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
...'s core," James said, after him and his team ran computer simulations to understand the effects of large asteroid impacts. There is a chance that the mysterious mass is something else altogether and the team have suggested another...
