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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
A Q&A with Lindley Johnson, a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
an ESA mission helping to test and characterize asteroid deflection techniques. A successful mission to deflect or destroy 2024 YR4 was “not infeasible,” Michel says. “But it would not have ...
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How NASA Science Data Defends Earth From Asteroids
Artist's impression of NASA's DART mission, which collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 to test planetary defense ...
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Conversations in space: How Hera is using AI to share its mission to defend Earth from asteroids
advancing planetary defense by understanding asteroid structures and dynamics, enhancing techniques for potential deflection.” These are the words of the Hera Space Companion, powered by Azure OpenAI ...
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European Space Agency working on spacecraft to steer asteroids away from Earth
The ‘gravity tractor’ method of asteroid deflection involves flying a spacecraft close enough to an asteroid so its gravitational attraction gradually pulls the body off course ...
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'Changed orbit': SpaceX to launch ESA’s asteroid mission to study aftermath of NASA's DART collision
Hera will provide detailed observations of the crater left by the DART impact, including the size and depth, and will evaluate the overall efficiency of the asteroid deflection technique.