What if a killer asteroid were headed toward Earth? NASA plans to find out. - NBCNewsMACH
that was announced last June. It will play out over the five days of the conference, which begins in College Park, Maryland, on Monday and runs through May 3. You can watch it live in the player below.
Rivkin, who said he was participating in the exercise, likened it to a fire drill but added that the consequences of a major asteroid strike"could be very bad ," referring to theAccording to the loosely scripted scenario, astronomers discover that ain 2027.
"We've only found about one-third of NEOs large enough to cause severe regional damage, so we have a lot of work left to do," Amy Mainzer, an astronomer and asteroid expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in an email."We need to build and operate more capable space- and ground-based telescopes, in my opinion," she added.
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