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‘Salvation’ on CBS

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On July 12th, CBS launched Salvation, its newest summer miniseries in the US, dealing with the ramifications of the discovery of an asteroid on course for a collision with Earth…

AD Stories: Mark Boslough’s Chelyabinsk Fragments

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Our final Asteroid Day story comes from Mark Boslough, the chair of the Asteroid Day Expert Panel (ADXP) and expert on planetary impacts. Mark has maybe the most romantic story of all…

AD Stories: Mario Jurić’s Childhood Telescope

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AD Stories is back! Today were putting the spotlight on Mario Jurić, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. Mario also had a story to share, about how a childhood…

AD Stories: Sabinije von Gaffke and Childlike Wonder

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In our ongoing AD stories series on our Asteroid Day LIVE panel participants’ personal tales and relationships to asteroids, we turn to one of our hosts, Sabinije von Gaffke. The founder…

AD Stories: Alan Fitzsimmons on an Impactful Night in Sudan

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Yesterday we heard about the importance of international collaboration in the hunt for asteroids and asteroid research. Alan Fitzsimmons, Professor of Astronomy at the Queen’s University Belfast Astrophysics Research Centre, provides us…