Can music save us from asteroids? American Indie band Broken Bells certainly hope so. In fact, they’re so wary of the threat posed by Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA’s) that they’re pledging to donate $1 of every ticket they sell for their upcoming tour, to the cause of PHA detection. To execute their plan, James Mercer and co. have teamed up with the not for profit organization, The B612 Foundation to help make their publicly funded PHA detection mission, Sentinel, a reality.

Boasting a Board that contains ex-NASA astronauts such as Rusty Shweickart (Apollo 9) and Ed Lu (ISS and multiple Space Shuttle flights), the B612 Foundation hopes to launch an advanced spacecraft that they believe will be able to detect up to 90% of the large asteroids (140m +) that currently exist in Earth’s neighborhood. As well as detecting these larger asteroids, B612’s Sentinel spacecraft will also detect and catalog a considerable number of smaller asteroids in what will be the most thorough mapping of near-Earth objects ever undertaken.

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