13 August 2015
The beautiful Perseid Meteor Shower and the (possibly) dangerous comet Swift-Tuttle
This year, the moon, a waning crescent, made for especially favorable watching conditions. As usual, the meteor display resulted in dazzling photography and social media status updates full of unrestrained awe. TIME magazine’s online ...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
Our planet has been the target of many meteor strikes over the eons, and it is just a matter of time before one collides with us again. Hoping to divert a ...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
...total disruption of everyday life within days. The Chelyabinsk meteor was a reminder of the dangers of space Some public... problems that threaten that service. A fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteor next to a scale cube The limited interest in impacts on...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...debris and natural space debris (such as meteoroids). Meteors arrive unannounced from the depths of space, quickly ... Earth can lead to global, regional and local catastrophes. Meteor Crater, the world’s best preserved meteorite impact site on Earth...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... Sun’s surface, is 10,000 times the total amount that all of humanity actually ‘consumes’. The 180 km diameter Meteor Crater on the Yucat In 1859 a gigantic coronal mass ejection involving billions of tons of ions travelling at millions of kilometres...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...harsh operating environment in which spacecraft are subjected to a number of hazards, such as space weather, cosmic rays and meteors. In addition to the natural hazards of space, there are anthropogenic hazards and threats such as space debris, cyber...
