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Chelyabinsk Meteor

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QUESTION FROM JOHN WHITEHEAD It is stated that the initial mass of this meteor was of the order of 10000 tons when it first entered the earths atmosphere, and that…

Rusty’s Planetary Defense Blog – Introduction

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Hello. I’m Rusty Schweickart and I’m writing this blog in order to introduce you to the basics of what we refer to as Planetary Defence or simply PD. Planetary Defence is the…

“Fireball” spotted over Brazil

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QUESTION FROM ALEXANDRE “I read recent press release regarding Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts Map available at (click here to open the link). One dot called my attention: that located at coordinates latitude…