30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... asteroid path – but as the Telegraph reports , a sea impact could potentially trigger a deadly tsunami headed straight for British shores. Such a tsunami may not end civilisation as we know it, but there is the question of how many lives...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... once every 100,000 years. The main mode of inflicting damage for these smaller objects is large tsunamis. Very small asteroids with sizes of a few metres impact Earth about once a year. However, most objects...
February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
... or in water. It will be accompanied by a wide spectrum of damage effects - blast wave, thermal radiation, seismic effects, terrain changes, tsunami formation, etc. The HSS demo version uses simulations for two main damage factors - blast wave...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...presence, where satellites are the first assets on ‘the scene’, especially in natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis. Similarly, satellites in various orbits are always present over, or at least provide regular coverage of, Earth’s surface...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...’Flop supercomputer estimated the probability of the comet’s impact on the South Atlantic to be 99.9 percent. The 250 m tall tsunami would have forever changed the face of our planet. Since then, no one has ever questioned space...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... to identify large ML items that drifted from Japan to the American continent following the disaster caused by the tsunami in Japan in March 2011 that generated 1.5 million tonnes of floating debris. The key requirement for this technique...
