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NASA Designs HAMMER Spacecraft to Deflect or Nuke Dangerous Asteroids
2018-03-09 19:30:58| Extremetech
NASA and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are working on a new spacecraft design that could potentially deflect a dangerous asteroid before it falls out of the sky and knocks us back into the stone age. The post NASA Designs HAMMER Spacecraft to Deflect or Nuke Dangerous Asteroids appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Scientists Propose Studying Hundreds of Asteroids with Nanoprobe Fleet
2017-09-20 20:06:23| Extremetech
A team of scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has presented a plan to study dozens of asteroids with a fleet of nanoprobes. The post Scientists Propose Studying Hundreds of Asteroids with Nanoprobe Fleet appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Seattle Times: By teaching computers to track asteroids, UW scientists may save the Earth
2017-06-30 16:14:43| PortlandOnline
News story posted to seattletimes.com June 29, 2017.
NASA Advances Mission to Protect Earth From Asteroids
2016-01-15 21:17:46| TechNewsWorld
NASA last week announced that it has established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to formalize its efforts to detect and track near-Earth objects. The PDCO will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that pass near Earth's orbit around the sun. It will issue notices of close passes and warnings of any detected potential impacts.
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Discover asteroids for NASA with this free app
2015-03-16 16:55:02| Extremetech
NASA and Planetary Resources are making it easier for amateur astronomers to find new asteroids with a desktop app called Asteroid Data Hunter.