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    Asteroid impact avoidance comprises the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away, preventing...
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  • the topic has been raised several times, often as a method of asteroid impact avoidance. In the PNE Treaty, the signatories agreed: not to carry out any...
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    be used to instantaneously vaporize a 1 km asteroid, or divert the paths of extinction event class asteroids (greater than 10 km in diameter) with a few...
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    DART mission to test the viability of asteroid impact avoidance by collision with a spacecraft, while the impact was witnessed by LICIACube, a flyby CubeSat...
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    (2007). "Tunguska (1908) and Its Relevance for Comet/Asteroid Impact Statistics". Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. pp. 331–339. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_19...
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    a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. The selected target asteroid, Dimorphos, is...
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    planets like the Earth. Asteroid capture – Orbital insertion of an asteroid around a larger planetary body Asteroid impact avoidance – Methods to prevent...
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    of asteroid impact avoidance is intended to be used on dangerous NEOs detected within a short time frame (less than 5 years) before a possible impact event...
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  • the next 100+ years. Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid impact prediction Earth-grazing fireball Impact event List of asteroid close approaches to Earth...
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    organizations have also raised related discussions and proposals on asteroid-impact avoidance. Arthur C. Clarke coined the term in his novel Rendezvous with...
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  • The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth...
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    increased since the 1980s because of greater awareness of this risk. Asteroid impact avoidance by deflection is possible in principle, and methods of mitigation...
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  • scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets. It is intended as a communication...
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    Asteroid impact prediction is the prediction of the dates and times of asteroids impacting Earth, along with the locations and severities of the impacts...
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    has been studied for use in asteroid impact avoidance strategies against any seriously threatening near earth asteroids. Six such warheads, configured...
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    350-meter PHO (308635) 2005 YU55 Asteroid impact avoidance Earth-grazing fireball Global catastrophic risk List of asteroid close approaches to Earth Scout...
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  • Asteroid laser ablation is a proposed method for deflecting asteroids, involving the use of a laser array to alter the orbit of an asteroid. Laser ablation...
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    Defending Earth: Protecting humanity from dangerous space objects (asteroid impact avoidance). Clean Energy from Space: Enabling everyone to benefit from space...
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    theme in science fiction stories and film Asteroid-impact avoidance – Methods to prevent destructive asteroid hitsPages displaying short descriptions of...
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    outer-grazer Earth-grazing fireball List of asteroid close approaches to Earth Asteroid impact avoidance List of Mercury-crossing minor planets List of...
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    concluded that the two asteroids had widely different trajectories and therefore could not have been related. Asteroid impact avoidance List of meteor air...
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    asteroids can threaten all life on the planet; an asteroid impact event may have resulted in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction. Different asteroid deflection...
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  • of the universe Proton decay Virtual black hole Impact event Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid impact prediction Potentially hazardous object Near-Earth...
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    release. Spaceflight portal Asteroid impact avoidance Don't Look Up (2021 film) Double Asteroid Redirection Test Impact event "How a real NASA patch...
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  • 91 At the school science fair, Sheldon is devastated when his asteroid impact avoidance project loses to another student's Van de Graaf generator and...
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    OSIRIS-REx (category Missions to near-Earth asteroids)
    critical for future scientists to understand when developing an asteroid impact avoidance mission. Dimensions: Length 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in), width 2.4 m (7 ft...
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    Yarkovsky effect (category Asteroids)
    potentially Earth-impacting near-Earth asteroids. Possible asteroid deflection strategies include "painting" the surface of the asteroid or focusing solar...
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    Space-based solar power Spacecraft design Spacecraft propulsion Asteroid-impact avoidance Astrobiology Astrobotany Astrochemistry Theoretical astronomy...
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  • The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) missions are a proposed pair of space probes which will study and demonstrate the kinetic effects...
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  • Space defense may refer to: Space warfare Asteroid-impact avoidance Alien invasion This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Space...
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