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Monday, 29 April 2019

Space and emergency agencies make plans for defending Earth from asteroids

The Manicouagan impact crater in Quebec, Canada, is one of many reminders that asteroids have impacted ...

NASA and its international partners are thinking the unthinkable. A tabletop exercise at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference (PDC) next week will consider a fictional scenario where an asteroid 100 to 300 m (330 to 990 ft) in diameter with a one-in-100 chance of striking the Earth on April 29, 2027 is detected. The aim of the exercise is to develop suitable ways to respond to such an emergency.

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