Articles, Papers and Videos about Near Earth Objects

 


  

[video] ASTEROID – DOOMSDAY OR PAYDAY?, NOVA, PBS  -  www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsjHpVF128   *** Highly Recommended by the Editor ***

 

ASTEROID IMPACT SCALE ENDORSED, BBC NEWS  -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/401777.stm

 

[video]THE ASTEROID THREAT | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMg3OPK4iN0 


[video] BRIAN MAY WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC THREAT EARTH FROM ASTEROIDS  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x0POlNWGwE

 

CHELYABINSK-SIZED ASTEROID IMPACTS MAY HAPPEN MORE OFTEN THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT, BAD ASTRONOMY BLOG  -  http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/06/chelyabinsk_asteroid_impact_small_rocks_may_hit_us_more_often_than_thought.html

 

'CITY KILLER' ASTEROID TO PASS HARMLESSLY BETWEEN EARTH AND MOON, THE GUARDIAN [asteroid's closest approach on 3/25/2023]  -  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/24/city-killer-asteroid-to-pass-harmlessly-between-earth-and-moon 


CLOSE SHAVE WITH ASTEROID, BBC NEWS  -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/347764.stm  

 

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), NASA  -  https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/dart-news 


DEFENDING PLANET EARTH FROM ASTEROID AND COMET STRIKES  -  www.spacedaily.com/reports/Defending_Planet_Earth_From_Asteroid_And_Comet_Strikes_999.html

 

DEFENDING PLANET EARTH: NEAR-EARTH OBJECT SURVEYS AND HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGIES  -  www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12842

 

[video] METEOR HITS RUSSIA FEBRUARY 15, 2013 - EVENT ARCHIVE  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU 


[video] METEOR STRIKES RUSSIA, OVER 1000 BELIEVED INJURED, ABC NEWS  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrdSwhQhY0 


[video] NASA'S DART MISSION HITS ASTEROID IN FIRST-EVER PLANETARY DEFENSE TEST  -  https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-dart-mission-hits-asteroid-in-first-ever-planetary-defense-test


NASA'S NEW PLANETARY DEFENSE OFFICE GETS TO WORK PROTECTING EARTH, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN [2016]  -  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-s-new-planetary-defense-office-gets-to-work-protecting-earth/ 


[video] NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: ASTEROIDS: DEADLY IMPACT (1997)  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VgO1adlEM8 


NEAR EARTH OBJECTS AND PLANETARY DEFENCE, UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR OUTER SPACE  -  https://www.unoosa.org/res/oosadoc/data/documents/2023/stspace/stspace73_0_html/st-space-073E.pdf 


ON ASTEROID DAY, RAISING AWARENESS THAT EARTH COULD GET HIT AGAIN, CBS NEWS   - www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-day-raising-awareness-earth-could-be-hit-by-asteroids

 

OVER A MILLION SPACE ROCKS COULD STRIKE EARTH WITH MORE ENERGY THAN A NUCLEAR BOMB, AND WE DON’T KNOW WHERE MOST OF THEM ARE, BUSINESS INSIDER  -  https://www.businessinsider.com/asteroids-could-destroy-earth-and-we-cant-even-find-them-2018-6  


RETURN TO TUNGUSKA, BBC NEWS  -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/380060.stm


[video] SCIENCECASTS: NEW YEAR’S ASTEROID STRIKE [2014], NASA  -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5DI97K_S8&list=PLiuUQ9asub3RHqKdK_XZSZ8I_981UPhvX&index


SMALL ASTEROIDS MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN BELIEVED, WIRED  -   https://www.wired.com/2007/12/small-asteroids 


SMALL ASTEROIDS POSE BIG NEW THREAT, NBC NEWS  -  https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22328494 


TEN THOUSANDTH NEAR-EARTH OBJECT UNEARTHED IN SPACE, NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY  -  www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-207

 

UNDETECTABLE ASTEROIDS COULD DESTROY CITIES, EXPERTS SAY  -  https://rense.com/general51/destroy.htm   


Near-Earth asteroid Bennu from images by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on December 2, 2018.  Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona