NEW YORK — Members of the United Nations met with distinguished astronauts and cosmonauts this week in New York to begin implementing the first-ever international contingency plan for defending Earth against catastrophic asteroid strikes. Six of the space travelers involved in these U.N. discussions discussed the...
The United Nations is to adopt an asteroid defence plan. The decision emerged following recommendations from concerned former astronauts, including Ed Lu, who suggested it was unacceptable that many people within the space industry only knew about the Chelyabinsk meteor because it appeared on their...
If a deadly asteroid takes aim at Earth, the United Nations will be on the case. The UN General Assembly last week agreed to set up an International Asteroid Warning Group that will compile and share information about potentially dangerous space rocks. Should an asteroid...
The ASE Committee on Near-Earth Objects statement follows the United Nations General Assembly adoption of a suite of proposals to create an international decision-making mechanism for planetary asteroid defense. Five notable astronauts from three nations joined Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Frederick P. Rose Planetarium,...
The United Nations is adopting a plan to defend the world against threatening asteroids. The decision came after recommendations by former astronauts, including Ed Lu, who argued that the planet needs to be defended against potential rogue asteroids. Lu used the Chelyabinsk meteor as an example,...
The passing of 2013 TV135 acted as an exclamation mark to his plea. Now, the United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish an asteroid defence plan. It will create an International Asteroid Warning Group to allow member nations to share information and coordinate surveillance efforts in...
News of the asteroid 2013 TV135 hitting Earth by 2036 broke out a week ago. This caused people to worry especially those in Russia who had experienced the impact of an asteroid after a 50-foot wide Asteroid 2012 DA14 hit in Chelyabinsk, Russia in Feb....
They're dark, difficult to see from the surface of the planet, and there are a lot of them floating in the solar system. Scientists are now looking into new, higher-tech ways to find and track near-Earth objects, but for now, much of the hard work...
If scientists were to discover, later this week, that an asteroid large enough to destroy the Earth will smash into the planet in a years’ time, humanity would have only one course of action, says former astronaut Russell Schweickart: “Make yourself a nice cocktail and...
Astronomers have warned that our planet is long overdue for a defense plan against catastrophic asteroid collisions. When it comes to deflecting Earth-obliterating celestial bodies, short of a superhero capable of punching the approaching rock back into outer space, there is no single force dedicated...