Asteroid Hunters - KQED QUEST

Everyone knows that eight planets orbit the Sun. But thousands of other objects, including icy comets and football field-sized asteroids, are also zooming around our solar system. And some of them could be on a collision course with Earth. QUEST explores how these Near Earth Objects are being tracked and what scientists are saying should be done to prevent a deadly impact.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Asteroid
• NASA
• Space
• Earth
• Chabot
• NEA
• meteorite
• San Francisco
• comet

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Everyone knows that eight planets orbit the Sun. But thousands of other objects, including icy comets and football field-sized asteroids, are also zooming around our solar system. And some of them could be on a collision course with Earth. QUEST explores how these Near Earth Objects are being tracked and what scientists are saying should be done to prevent a deadly impact.

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[Moranimaltv]

bruce willis will save us i know he will

[HotRock2010]

06:09 lmao earth is going to be hit by a giant penis!!

[enzomaidana]

I knowledge this is serious stuff, and that all of mankind should come together to find an answer to this theart, but, dont tell me that asteroid at 6:06 dont look like a penis.

[jsl151850b]

The gravity tractor's advangage is that the asteroid can still be rotating.

But, weighing 1/10,000th or less than the asteroid, I don't think it would

be effective.

Soft-landing a rocket would be more effective but would need lots of fuel.

Low thrust ion engines that thrust for months at high efficiency.

If the asteroid rotated once a minute, the thruster could fire once a minute

for 15 seconds each time it faced the proper direction.

Lasers crater the surface, the vapor become reaction jets.

[AnimalActivist2]

Are you in cahoots with Joey Petroni and his asteroids sales?

[melenmike]

@eddielopez2012

i now its about 200 meters

and they want to blow it away but the blocked bij the EU

europa meeting

[eddielopez2012]

Listen

theres an asteroid rght now towards earth

the russian r targeting it

12/30/09