Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' (so give us research money)

A visualisation showing where sizeable asteroids have hit the Earth in recent years has been released by the B612 Foundation.

Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' (so give us research money) _74251921_n61hioqj

Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' (so give us research money) _74251921_n61hioqj

The US-based group, which includes a number of former Nasa astronauts, campaigns on the issue of space protection.

It hopes the visualisation will press home the idea that impacts are more common than we think.

The presentation leans on data collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

The CTBTO operates a network of sensors that listens out for clandestine atom bomb detonations.

Between 2000 and 2013, this infrasound system catalogued 26 major explosions on Earth.

None were caused by A-bombs; they were all the result of asteroid strikes.

They ranged in energy from one to 600 kilotons. By way of comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima was a 15-kiloton device.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27039285

Quote :: so give us research money

LOL, if anything is worth funding, this would be it...

How many deaths occur from asteroid impacts?

The risk is massive. One big hit and we're all toast.

Unacceptable!

So stop funding land rights for gay whales and fund this instead.

:Nuclear:

Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' (so give us research money)

Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' (so give us research money)

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