January 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
...the level of residential area destruction depending on the distance from the asteroid’s impact site. Table 1 shows calculation results of the consequences of an asteroid collision in relation to major points of damage to people and property: the type...
June 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...-effects of the catastrophe on Earth had passed, they could set out to re-populate the planet. A collision with the Earth by asteroids or comets could bring about the partial or even the total destruction of mankind and the Earth...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
...object large enough to cause catastrophic damage make a collision course with Earth. But what if that time was... or more (99.9 percent of the mass misses Earth). For a larger asteroid, more time is needed, say the team. Dispersal velocities could still...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... smaller than about 20-30 metres burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere and don’t reach the ground. Aware of the asteroid collision risk, the USCongress directed NASA, in December 2005, toimplement a NEO survey that would catalogue90 per cent...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... the orbits of near Earth objects (NEOs) and monitoring the paths of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) to predict the possibility of a major asteroid collision with Earth. The United Nations General Assembly has authorised the creation of the...
09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
... given rise to a strongly enhanced flux to Earth. "We were very surprised to learn that only one of the 70 largest asteroid collisions that took place over the past 500 million years resulted in an increased flux of meteorites to Earth. For...
