October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
Observing the paths of Near Earth Objects isn’t enough to deal with the threat of a major impact, as recent rehearsal exercises have demonstrated. So many uncertainties exist that it is possible that we will not be able to deflect an incoming object...
22 October 2015
‘Great Pumpkin’ Halloween flyby: implications of asteroid 2015 TB145 discovery
... several years” – a cause for much excitement in the scientific community. But as other experts, including ROOM’s Ed Lu and Debbie Lewis have pointed out – we must work out new approaches for dealing with the asteroid threat. Whether...