NASA Releases Map Showing Asteroids That Impact Earth's Atmosphere

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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NASA's Near Earth Object Program released a map showing asteroids that impacted Earth's atmosphere and burned up from 1994-2013. The count was 556, which is a far larger score than I can get at Asteroids.

The public can help participate in the hunt for potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects through the Asteroid Grand Challenge, which aims to create a plan to find all asteroid threats to human populations and know what to do about them. NASA is also pursuing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) which will identify, redirect and send astronauts to explore an asteroid. Among its many exploration goals, the mission could demonstrate basic planetary defense techniques for asteroid deflection.
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Finding hazardous asteroids has become much easier, now that we have vision from the far side of the sun (NASA's STEREO mission). The one major snag in asteroid detection has always been those directed from the sun's direction, since they reflect no light to Earth and are lost in the sun's glare. Now they're detectable no matter where they're coming from.
 
BTW if anyone missed it, here's the largest one (Russia 2013). See if you can follow the color changes, from green to yellow etc.
 
We've been hit a lot in the past 6500 years. Damn sinners.
 
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