World asteroid experts will discuss a hypothetical asteroid impact on earth in Washington, D.C. Monday as part of the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference.
This mosaic image composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2, 2018, and provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu. The tiny asteroid regularly crosses Earth's orbit and will come perilously close to Earth in about 150 years. If the odds of an asteroid hitting Earth were 1 in 100, how would humans stop it?
It’s a questions scientists are hoping to work out as they gather Monday in Washington D.C. at the 2019The European Space Agency is live-tweeting the event, and have been active on social media this weekend presenting possible theories to prevent asteroid impact, such as a “kinetic impactor” and a “gravity tractor.”.
Space enthusiasts can follow along on Twitter to see what solutions and protocols to the asteroid impact will be presented at the conference, which runs from April 29 to May 3.This topic has been the theme of many epic films and TV series, but what really are the chances of an
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