This NASA graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) .. ,p>so far up to over 1,300
Posted on 10/27/2013 4:35:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK — Members of the United Nations met with distinguished astronauts and cosmonauts this week in New York to begin implementing the first-ever international contingency plan for defending Earth against catastrophic asteroid strikes.
Six of the space travelers involved in these U.N. discussions discussed the asteroid defense effort Friday (Oct. 25) in a news conference hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson at the American Museum of Natural History. Their goal: to drive home the very-real threats posed by near-Earth objects (NEOs), or asteroids traveling within the radius of Earth's orbit with the sun. You can see a video of the asteroid defense discussion here.
Scientists estimate that there are roughly 1 million near-Earth asteroids that could potentially pose a threat to the planet, but only a small fraction of these have actually been detected by telescopes. There are about 100 times more asteroids lurking in space than have ever been located, said Edward Lu, a former NASA astronaut and co-founder of the non-profit B612 Foundation advocating asteroid defense strategies. "Our challenge is to find these asteroids first, before they find us," Lu said. ..
To help achieve this goal, Lu co-founded an organization called the B612 Foundation in 2002. Today, the group is developing a privately built infrared space telescope — called the Sentinel Space Telescope — with the sole purpose of locating threatening asteroids. The foundation hopes to launch the telescope by 2018.
The Sentinel telescope will help space agencies identify threatening near-Earth objects years before they hit Earth, providing governments and space agencies with enough time to take action, Lu and his colleagues said. Such action would entail deploying a spacecraft — or multiple spacecrafts, depending on the size of the space rock — toward the asteroid in order to smack it off course.
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This NASA graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) .. ,p>so far up to over 1,300
We have about as much chance of doing this as we do of stopping Climate Change and the tides coming and going.
Oops! Wrong roids!!
Have “scientists” decided that they’ve gotten just about all the unconstitutional federal earmarks that they can expect from global warming alarmism and are trying to establish asteroid defense as their next PC excuse for earmarks?
Its too bad that asteroid defense alarmists didn’t see this situation coming before Obama deactivated NASA. But maybe Obama has some unconstitutional stimulus funds left over for unconstitutional NASA.
I was expecting an earth shattering KA BOOM.....!
My thoughts exactly!
If we can’t do something as simple as stop socialism, what makes anyone think we can battle asteroids?
You are right. I think it is just another scam, to steal money from the American tax payer.
Another backdoor attempt to usurp America’s rights and money.
In three dimensions the orbits are separated by vast distances. The chances of something hitting earth in any given lifetime are practically zero.
First we had better engage in a global effort to defend Earth from owebama.
Scientific, Economic Database of Over 600,000 Asteroids- Awesome Visualization Application
Asterank | October 26, 2013 | Ian Webster
Posted on 10/27/2013 4:27:10 PM PDT by lbryce
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3084299/posts
——That’s a 2-dimensional projection of 3-dimensional space.——
That was my first thought as well ....Glad you pointed that out.... That picture is very misleading...
Also it does not denote the size of the objects.....most if not all would burn up on entering our atmosphere...
God has been throwing rocks at us for 4.7 billion years and nobody has stopped one yet. not a matter of if but when.
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