Laser Bees: A Presentation About Asteroid Deflection Through Laser Ablation

The Planetary Society supports pioneering research into this innovative and exciting concept for changing the Earth-threatening trajectory of asteroids. Grad student Alison Gibbings recently visited Society headquarters to provide a detailed status report on behalf of Dr. Max Vasile, leader of Mirror/Laser Bees research at the University of Strathclyde.

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[DTHRocket]

Lasers are nice, but I'm a big fan of NED's.

[ShaniaSuperFan]

I've had this video on my "for later" list for some time, but was intimidated by the 1:12:17 viewing time.... To enhance viewer-friendliness, I suggest that in future: (a) the question/answer session at the end be severed from the main video and made into its own separate upload as "Part 2 -- Audience Q&A" or something along those lines; and (b) the intro/preliminaries be strictly limited no more than 2 min. The main video should be no longer than 45 minutes if at all possible.  Jus' sayin' :-)

[Frank Gillings]

asteroid.frankgillings com

try the above link

[astroscuba]

This experiment was referring to a static sample of various compositions. In a real situation, the asteroid is revolving according to it's mass. Would that mean that the laser bees would have to be in a synchronous orbit around the asteroid so that it's point of contact is kept at one point of contact?