B612 Foundation Earth Day Impact Video, Press Conference and Webcast
“The B612 Foundation will hold a press conference today which will be webcast from the Seattle Museum of Flight today. The press conference will feature the following new video of data from a nuclear-test-ban-treaty organization showing multiple atomic-bomb-scale asteroid impacts on Earth since 2001. You can watch the press conference below starting at 2:30 p.m. EDT.”

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7 replies on “Asteroid Threat Press Conference Today”

  1. We have been very lucky with the asteroids. They normally hit the seas. A bit to the north and the one that hit the Mediterranean could have done some real harm.

    1. One that hit the Mediterranian? What is that? The new infrasound data from Brown presented at the B612 press conference refer to relatively small impacts — not large enough to be a risk. There is no reason to worry about these. The question they raise is whether they imply a higher flux of larger objects that could do a lot of damage like Tunguska.

      1. An asteroid does not have to hit the ground to be dangerous. A sonic bomb that breaks windows is sufficient.

        1. Of course they don’t need to hit the ground. — airbursts are in general more dangerous than ground impacts. But they do have to explode with sufficient energy, and low enough in the atmosphere, to do damage.

      2. Does insurance cover asteroid impacts? I’m sure if the likelihood was high enough, insurance companies would raise their rates.

  3. I remember I was at a lecture by a Dr. Junkins talking about Apophis and he showed an animated picture of the earth and moon and the known objects that intersect earths orbit. Pretty awe inspiring to say the least

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