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...
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...
29 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... became a great puzzle for scientists, who proposed many theories for the change, ranging from a huge asteroid collision to a cloud of broken-apart comets. But perhaps the wildest theory about KIC 8462852 is that it is home to a gigantic...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...our own giving planets stability and shielding them from asteroid collisions, and liquid inner cores of planets producing magnetic ...desired effect For instance, giant volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts are the most likely explanations for many ...
