October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
.... The specific hazard in this exercise involved another hypothetical near-Earth asteroid, designated 2015 PDC, which was predicted to pass very close to Earth on 3 September 2022. The asteroid was ‘discovered’ on 13 April 2015 and had been tracked...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...commercial space companies more creative, more productive and better structured to cope with them. All near-Earth asteroid discoveries as of 5 January Technologies for planetary defence It is ironic that, at a time when human knowledge and technology...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... reminding the world of the destructive power potential of near earth objects (NEOs) that sometimes find their way into ...urging to accelerate the discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids 100 fold. Famous signatories already include everyone from...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
...and an aphelion greater than 0.983 astronomical units – though in reality, nearly all Aten asteroids have an aphelion greater than 1 AU. Aten asteroids make up about 6% of known near-earth asteroids. The first week of September has seen more than its...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... (ARM).1 This will include the first-ever robotic and crewed mission to identify, capture and redirect a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) in the area around the Moon. As cislunar space is similar to what a spacecraft would experience on the trip...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...build the DAS trajectory, taking into account the disturbance input from Earth, the Moon and planets. Calculations of close encounters of near-Earth asteroids are performed automatically. The probability of collision and possible crash sites, as well...
