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...
Forget Armageddon, says Ed Lu. Forget sci-fi space shuttles. Forget burying nuclear bombs in comets. Forget all that. Asteroids are a real and potentially existential threat. But if we find them early enough, they’re fairly easy to deflect. With years or decades, instead of months...
Ed Lu's public presentation at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Earth Day, April 22, 2014....
Asteroids of various sizes whiz past our planet all the time. Some we know about, but many we don’t, and new ones are identified on an almost weekly basis. (In fact one such recently-discovered asteroid named 2014 HQ214, an object the length of an aircraft...
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....
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