Ed Lu’s Public Presentation at the Museum of Flight
Ed Lu's public presentation at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Earth Day, April 22, 2014....
17 June, 2014
Ed Lu
How Sentinel Will Work
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....
04 June, 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
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
Attack of the asteroids: New video shows where they hit and when
If you think asteroid impacts are just the stuff of action movies, think again. Since the year 2000, a powerful array of microphones has detected 26 nuclear-sized explosions in the Earth's atmosphere-- each the result of a space rock slamming into our planet. You can see where...
25 April, 2014
Powerful Asteroids Strike Earth with Surprising Frequency
Since the start of the 21st century, dozens of incoming asteroids have slammed into Earth, some of them packing far more energy than a city-destroying atomic bomb, a new animation illustrates. The visualization was released in honor of Earth Day by the B612 Foundation — an...
25 April, 2014
Group: Deadly asteroids more frequent than thought
Space rocks big enough to destroy a city hit the Earth much more often than thought, according to an estimate by a private group devoted to preventing disaster from such orbital killers. It took a space rock the size of San Francisco to finish off the...
25 April, 2014