Sentinel in Space 1
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28 April, 2014
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Impact Video (en Español)
Watch and share the video below showing just how often Earth is hit by untracked asteroids....
28 April, 2014
SURPRISE: EARTH IS HIT BY A LOT MORE ASTEROIDS THAN YOU THOUGHT
When we think of recent large asteroid impacts on Earth, only a handful may come to mind. In particular, one is the forest-flattening 1908 Tunguska explosion over Siberia (which may have been the result of a comet) and another is the February 2013 meteor that...
28 April, 2014
What are odds an asteroid will level a major city? Higher than you might think, say researchers.
The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth and causing significant damage are much higher than what was previously estimated. According to new data released by the B612 Foundation, a non-profit group that aims to launch its Sentinel Space Telescope in 2018 in order to map...
26 April, 2014
Sentinel Telescope May Help Save Us From Earth-Killing Asteroids
Asteroid impacts on Earth – those on the scale of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago – have been big hits in Hollywood. But in the modern world, are the impacts portrayed in movies like Deep Impact and Armageddon only...
26 April, 2014
The Next ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Could Be Closer Than We Think
Asteroids as powerful as atomic bombs may hit the Earth more often than we previously thought. New data shows how and where 26 asteroids collided with our planet from 2000 to 2013, according to research released in a video by the B612 Foundation. “It shows that asteroid...
26 April, 2014
B612 Foundation highlights the risk of city-destroying asteroids
The California-based B612 Foundation has released a video displaying the distribution of 26 multi-kiloton asteroid impacts known to have struck the Earth since the year 2000. Many of the impacts – detected by a network of satellites operated by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization...
26 April, 2014
Ex-astronauts plan to launch an asteroid-tracking satellite
On Tuesday, with Earth Day as a backdrop, the B612 Foundation started its presentation about asteroid detection with enough material to fill out an apocalyptic sci-fi film. An introductory video mapped out 26 nuclear-bomb-level impacts recorded on Earth in the last 13 years, a few...
26 April, 2014
Earth’s odds of getting slammed by an asteroid are a lot higher than we think
How often, really, do you stop and take the time to be grateful that your entire city hasn’t been wiped out by an asteroid? According to new research, 26 asteroids made it to Earth between 2000 and 2013, so, just saying, maybe you ought to...
25 April, 2014
Visualisation ‘shows asteroid hits’
Information on the frequency with which the Earth is hit by asteroids has been released by the B612 foundation, which includes astronauts and scientists. It said that a network of sensors operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation had detected 26 explosion on Earth...
25 April, 2014