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Asteroid impact avoidance

Index Asteroid impact avoidance

Asteroid impact avoidance comprises a number of methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events. [1]

75 relations: Advanced Concepts Team, AIDA (mission), Armageddon (1998 film), Asteroid, Asteroid capture, Asteroid laser ablation, Asteroid Redirect Mission, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, B53 nuclear bomb, B612 Foundation, B83 nuclear bomb, Babylon 5 influences, Carl Sagan, Chelyabinsk meteor, Dandridge MacFarlan Cole, Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and ExplorRation, Don Quijote (spacecraft), Double Asteroid Redirection Test, End Day, Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Gameplay of Stars!, Gravitational keyhole, HAMMER (disambiguation), Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle, I. Michael Ross, Impact event, Impact winter, Interplanetary spaceflight, June 1968, Leon Jaroff, List of After Words interviews first aired in 2014, List of Earth-crossing minor planets, List of European Space Agency programs and missions, List of fictional astronauts (miscellaneous futuristic activities), Meteor (film), Meteor Storm, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, Near-Earth object, Neutron bomb, Northolt Branch Observatories, Nuclear explosive, OSIRIS-REx, Outline of space science, Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale, Patrick Michel, Peaceful nuclear explosion, Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Planetary Missions Program Office, Potentially hazardous object, ..., Reality Check (podcast), SDF-1 Macross, Sentinel Space Telescope, Shimojishima Airport, Space architecture, Space defense, Space warfare, Spaceguard, SpaceWorks Enterprises, Technogaianism, Timeline of the far future, Torino scale, Tunguska event, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Yarkovsky effect, Young Sheldon, (144898) 2004 VD17, (29075) 1950 DA, (292220) 2006 SU49, (481482) 2007 CA19, 1490 Ch'ing-yang event, 2007 TU24, 2013 TV135, 2018 in science, 99942 Apophis. Expand index (25 more) »

Advanced Concepts Team

The Advanced Concepts Team is a group of scientists, researchers and young graduates that perform multidisciplinary research within the European Space Agency.

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AIDA (mission)

The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission is a proposed pair of space probes which would study and demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon.

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Armageddon (1998 film)

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Asteroid capture

Asteroid capture is the entering by an asteroid into an orbit around a larger planetary body.

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Asteroid laser ablation

Asteroid laser ablation is a proposed method for deflecting asteroids, involving the use of a laser array to alter the orbit of an asteroid.

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Asteroid Redirect Mission

The Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), also known as the Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization (ARU) mission and the Asteroid Initiative, was a space mission proposed by NASA in 2013.

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Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS; Observatory codes T05 and T08) is an astronomical survey and robotic, early-warning system for detecting smaller near-Earth objects a few weeks to days before they impact Earth.

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B53 nuclear bomb

The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War.

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B612 Foundation

The B612 Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States, dedicated to planetary defense against asteroids and other near-Earth object (NEO) impacts.

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B83 nuclear bomb

The B83 thermonuclear weapon is a variable-yield unguided bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s, entering service in 1983.

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Babylon 5 influences

Science fiction television series Babylon 5 draws upon many cultural, historical and mythical influences to inform and illustrate its characters and storylines.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

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Chelyabinsk meteor

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20-metre near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h or 40,000–42,900 mph).

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Dandridge MacFarlan Cole

Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (February 19, 1921 – October 29, 1965) was an American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author.

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Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and ExplorRation

Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and ExplorRation (DE-STAR) is a proposed University of California Santa Barbara Experimental Cosmology Group experimental astrophysics group primarily focused on studies of the early universe and astrophysical applications of directed energy.

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Don Quijote (spacecraft)

Don Quijote is a past space probe concept that has been studied by the European Space Agency, and which would investigate the effects of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid.

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a proposed space probe that would demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon for planetary defense purposes.

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End Day

End Day is a 2005 docu-drama produced by the BBC.

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Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Heavenly Eye" or "The Eye of Heaven") is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China.

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Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics

The Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (German: Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik), commonly known as the Ernst Mach Institute and also by the abbreviation Fraunhofer EMI, is a facility of the Fraunhofer Society in Germany.

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Gameplay of Stars!

In the Gameplay of Stars!, each player begins the game with a small fleet of starting ships and one planet (or occasionally two, depending on Primary Racial Trait and universe size.) From these beginnings they develop their empire until they come into contact with the races of other players.

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Gravitational keyhole

A gravitational keyhole is a tiny region of space where a planet's gravity would alter the orbit of a passing asteroid such that the asteroid would collide with that planet on a given future orbital pass.

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HAMMER (disambiguation)

HAMMER may refer to.

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Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle

A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) is a spacecraft being developed by NASA to deflect dangerous Near Earth objects (NEOs) such as comets and asteroids that threaten colliding with Earth.

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I. Michael Ross

Isaac Michael Ross is a Distinguished Professor and Program Director of Control and Optimization at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

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Impact event

An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.

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Impact winter

An impact winter is a hypothesized period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface.

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Interplanetary spaceflight

Interplanetary spaceflight or interplanetary travel is travel between planets, usually within a single planetary system.

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June 1968

The following events occurred in June 1968.

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Leon Jaroff

Leon Morton Jaroff (February 27, 1927 – October 20, 2012) was an American science writer and editor.

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List of After Words interviews first aired in 2014

After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV.

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List of Earth-crossing minor planets

An Earth-crosser is a near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth as observed from the ecliptic pole of Earth's orbit.

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List of European Space Agency programs and missions

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of missions, both operational and scientific, including collaborations with other national space administrations such as the Japanese JAXA, the French CNES, the American NASA, and the Chinese CNSA.

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List of fictional astronauts (miscellaneous futuristic activities)

The following is a list of fictional astronauts on missions to deflect asteroids and comets which pose a threat to Earth, as well as performing other miscellaneous feats of space exploration not yet achieved.

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Meteor (film)

Meteor is a 1979 Hong Kong–American science fiction disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, Cold War politics in their efforts to prevent disaster.

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Meteor Storm

Meteor Storm (Spanish: Lluvia de fuego; French: Tempête de météorites (dubbed version)) is a 2010 American disaster film with the tagline "The fury no one saw coming...". The film was directed by Tibor Takács, produced by Tracey Jeffrey and Written by Peter Mohan.

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Near-Earth Asteroid Scout

The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a planned mission by NASA to develop a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA).

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Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.

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Neutron bomb

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself.

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Northolt Branch Observatories

The Northolt Branch Observatories (NBO; Observatory codes: Z80, Z48 and Z37) is an astronomical observatory located in London, England.

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Nuclear explosive

A nuclear explosive is an explosive device that derives its energy from nuclear reactions.

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OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid study and sample-return mission.

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Outline of space science

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space science: Space science encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology.

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Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale

The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale is a logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-earth object (NEO).

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Patrick Michel

Patrick Michel (born 25 February 1970 in Saint-Tropez, France) is a French planetary scientist, Senior Researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), leader of the team TOP (Theories and Observations in Planetology) of the Lagrange Laboratory at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice (France).

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Peaceful nuclear explosion

Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes.

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Planetary Defense Coordination Office

The Planetary Defense Coordination Office is a planetary defense organization within NASA’s Planetary Science Division.

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Planetary Missions Program Office

The Planetary Missions Program Office is a division of NASA headquartered at the Marshall Space Flight Center, formed by the agency's Science Mission Directorate (SMD).

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Potentially hazardous object

A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make exceptionally close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

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Reality Check (podcast)

The Reality Check is a weekly podcast hosted by members of The Ottawa Skeptics.

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SDF-1 Macross

The SDF-1 Macross is a fictional interstellar transforming spacecraft from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a science fiction anime series that aired in Japan between 1982–1983.

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Sentinel Space Telescope

The Sentinel Space Telescope washttp://spacenews.com/b612-studying-smallsat-missions-to-search-for-near-earth-objects/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3255059/Nasa-pulls-plug-killer-asteroid-hunter-Sentinel-mission-set-search-dangerous-space-rocks-loses-30-million-support.html a space observatory being designed and built for the B612 Foundation, and under development by Ball Aerospace & Technologies.

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Shimojishima Airport

is located on the island of Shimojishima in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Space architecture

Space architecture, in its simplest definition, is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space.

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Space defense

Space defense may refer to.

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Space warfare

Space warfare is combat that takes place in outer space.

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Spaceguard

The term Spaceguard loosely refers to a number of efforts to discover and study near-Earth objects (NEO), especially those that may impact Earth.

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SpaceWorks Enterprises

SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) is an aerospace engineering company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States that specializes in the design and assessment of advanced space concepts for both government and commercial customers.

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Technogaianism

Technogaianism (a portmanteau word combining "techno-" for technology and "gaian" for Gaia philosophy) is a bright green environmentalist stance of active support for the research, development and use of emerging and future technologies to help restore Earth's environment.

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Timeline of the far future

While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.

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Torino scale

The Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.

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Tunguska event

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (NS).

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched in December 2009, and placed in hibernation in February 2011.

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Yarkovsky effect

The Yarkovsky effect is a force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum.

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Young Sheldon

Young Sheldon (stylized as young Sheldon) is an American television comedy on CBS created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro.

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(144898) 2004 VD17

(144898), provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group once thought to have a low probability of impacting Earth on 4 May 2102.

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(29075) 1950 DA

is an asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately in diameter.

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(292220) 2006 SU49

, provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group that had a small chance of impacting Earth in 2029.

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(481482) 2007 CA19

is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group.

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1490 Ch'ing-yang event

The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower or air burst in Qìngyáng (Ch'ing-Yang) in March or April 1490.

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2007 TU24

is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid that was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on October 11, 2007.

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2013 TV135

is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid estimated to have a diameter of.

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2018 in science

A number of significant scientific events have occurred or are scheduled to occur in 2018.

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99942 Apophis

99942 Apophis (previously known by its provisional designation) is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance

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