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Asteroid Day Panel Discussion at the Science Museum in London

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On Asteroid Day (June 30th, 2015) the Science Museum in London hosted the premiere of the feature film 51º NORTH which was followed by a Science Panel featuring: Sir Crispin…

How Would You Propose to Survey and Track All NEO of the Size Of Tunguska?

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QUESTION FROM ALASDAIR TAYLOR How would you propose to survey and track all NEO of the size of Tunguska? I mean 25th abs magnitude is faint and I can believe that…

Should I move to Spain to hide from Asteroids?

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Christian Koeberl is a professor of Impact Research and Planetary Geology at the University of Vienna and an Asteroid Day Expert. In this post, he answers a user-submitted question. Do you have an…

Is it just me, or are asteroids more dangerous than they used to be?

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Eric Christensen is the director of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) and an Asteroid Day Expert. He answers a user submitted question. Do you have an asteroid related question?…

What created the many elliptical Carolina Bay landform depressions and what caused the Younger Dryas cooling period 12,900 years ago?

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Dr Mark Boslough answers user submitted Questions. First question: What created the many elliptical Carolina Bay landform depressions? There are thousands of enigmatic oval-shaped depressions in the Atlantic Coastal Plain,…