Scientists around the world held what they billed as the first annual Asteroid Day on Tuesday, giving lectures and hosting panel discussions promoting projects designed to detect threats from space before it’s too late. The scientists who organized the events said humans must do a better...
Rusty Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA Apollo 9 astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. In this talk, Rusty talks all things asteroids. --- Asteroid Day, June 30th 2015 California Academy of Sciences San...
It would be the end of the world as we know it. A relatively small lump of rock – a small asteroid, perhaps only a few hundred metres across – plunging to Earth would devastate a continent or trigger tsunamis. Civilisation would be set back...
B612 Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to planetary defense from asteroids. Founded in 2002, in our first decade, we worked to find technical solutions for asteroid deflection, assuming the necessary first step of discovering and tracking threatening asteroids would be managed by the...
At the Planetary Defense Conference of 2015, Newsweek investigated whether impacts from dangerous asteroids can be stopped and who was going to pay. One of the Americans who has played a central role in the development of planetary defense is B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart. Read the Article: "We...
Humankind lives in a cosmic shooting gallery. For evidence of that, we need look no further than the events of 15 February 2013. On that day, a medium-size asteroid was set to pass some 28,000 kilometers from Earth, unusually close and well within the orbits...
Steve Jurvetson's Biography Bio: Steve Jurvetson is a Partner at DFJ. The SF Chronicle and SF Examiner recognized Steve as one of “ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century.” Steve was chosen by...
Asteroids could wipe out humanity unless more effort is made to track and destroy them, a leading body of scientists and astronauts has warned. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, Brian Cox, and Richard Dawkins are among more than 100 experts calling for the creation of...
On July 17, Sentinel Mission co-founder Rusty Schweickart gave a review of the status of the global efforts to protect life on the planet from the devastation of large asteroid impacts and about our prospects of avoiding the same fate as the dinosaurs. He spoke at...
Ball Aerospace's video gives a great overview of the Sentinel Mission, including interviews with Dr. Ed Lu, Rusty Schweickart, Dr. Scott Hubbard and Ball's Program Manager John Troeltzsch....