Assesing the Threat of Asteroid Impacts on Earth - Nicholas Moskovitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from v403 Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 16 min 6 sec
✓ Published: 22-Nov-2013

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Defending the Earth with a Telescope: Mitigating Impact Hazard through Studies of Near-Earth AsteroidsnNicholas Moskovitz, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologynnAn asteroid impact is the only natural catastrophe that we can accurately predict and attempt to mitigate. Fortunately, the odds of a large (km-scale) asteroid impacting the Earth are very small, and have almost entirely been eliminated thanks to efforts over the past decade to discover and track the largest asteroids in near-Earth spac