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"Predicting and Observing Asteroid Impacts Across Europe"

NASA's Scout impact assessment system successfully predicted the impact of a small 3-foot asteroid, 2024 BX1, over Germany, providing advance warning of its trajectory and time of impact. This marks the eighth time a small Earth-bound asteroid has been detected while still in space. While these tiny asteroids pose no threat to life on Earth, they serve as valuable demonstrations of NASA's planetary defense capabilities. The agency's efforts in tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) are becoming more sophisticated, with the data gathered from such events informing NASA's mitigation strategies for potential future impacts.

via NASA|

#asteroid-impact #nasa #neos

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1000-Year Map of Dangerous Asteroids Created by Astronomers

Astronomers have predicted the orbits of hazardous asteroids larger than a kilometer across over the next thousand years and identified 28 candidates that have a non-zero probability of a "deep encounter," which means they will pass within less than the distance to the Moon. None of these objects may hit the Earth in the next hundred or a thousand years, but if we are to survive long-term, we definitely need to pay attention to them.

via ScienceAlert|

#asteroids #astronomy #earth

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NASA's Updated Strategy for Protecting Earth from Asteroids and Comets

The US National Science and Technology Council has updated the country's plan for dealing with potentially dangerous asteroids. The plan includes six goals for federal agencies aimed at strengthening our ability to detect, track and develop technologies to deflect hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), and increasing international preparedness for such events. The report cites the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which estimates that there are nearly 1,000 NEOs larger than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide out there. The six action plan goals listed in the updated action plan include enhanced detection, more accurate tracking and characterization, and technological advancements in NEO deflection.

via Space.com|

#asteroid-defense #international-cooperation #nasa