Written by the same experts that listed the risk as infinitesimal. Anyhow, the point being, the number expanded primarily because their detection methods became more granular. The meteors you’re referring to are within 1.3x the earth’s average distance to the sun and the vast majority are only a few meters across. "At that time, just over 7,000 NEAs had been discovered, while today we know of over 12,000 NEAs, an increase of 70%. The percentage increase in the number of accessible asteroids in the catalog has been even greater: On January 18, 2015 - a little over four years since the NHATS assessments began - the 1332nd NHATS-compliant asteroid was identified, doubling the number of known accessible NEAs. The sizes of these asteroids range from as small as a few meters to as large as a few kilometers. While all these asteroids are more dynamically accessible than a round-trip mission to Mars, many of them (hundreds) require less energy to visit (round-trip) than does the lunar surface, and dozens of them require less energy to visit than does a low orbit around the Moon. "
"“The rising rate of discovery is due to dedicated NEO surveys and upgraded telescopes coming online in recent years,” said NASA’s NEO Observations Program Manager Kelly Fast… Congress directed NASA to find over 90 percent of objects this size and larger by the end of 2020."
"While no known NEO currently poses a risk of impact with Earth over the next 100 year," says NASA Planetary Defense Office Lindley Johnson, "we’ve found mostly the larger asteroids and have a lot more of the smaller but still potentially hazardous ones to find."
Sorry for not shitting my pants about this “revelation”. None of this implies they lack a plan either.
I actually suspect(ed) he was you. Partially because you two are very similar and partially because he only posts in threads you post in and very infrequently (like a lazy second troll attempt).
^ Correct analyses are known thru their predictive power, kiddo.
Right on schedule, the Trump revolutionaries (disclosure: short SPX)…
Jared Halbrook, 25, of Green Bay, Wis., said that if Mr. Trump lost to Hillary Clinton, which he worried would happen through a stolen election, it could lead to “another Revolutionary War.”
“People are going to march on the capitols,” said Mr. Halbrook, who works at a call center. “They’re going to do whatever needs to be done to get her out of office, because she does not belong there.” “If push comes to shove,” he added, and Mrs. Clinton “has to go by any means necessary, it will be done.”
^ ADHD, Trump revolutionaries, asteroids, emoji analysis, mod trolling…
Back on topic, more clues Trump doesn’t want to win. Seriously, even I could spend more than $31K per month…
The GOP nominee – despite frequent promises to contribute $100 million to his campaign by Election Day – donated a measly $31,000 in early October.Trump donates just $31K to campaign
Trump told us he had a great plan from a documentary he watched where he will send Bruce Willis & his gang of rugged oil drillers up and they will destroy the asteroid and save us all. Why he couldnt train astronauts to do this, no one knows. Not even ben affleck understood that one
Interesting that the article mentions that Hillary donated $50,000 to her campaign in October, but doesn’t say how much she has donated to date. If I recall correctly, she had to forgive more than $10 million she loaned her 2008 campaign because she couldn’t pay back other creditors in time, so she might be a bit gun shy this time around.
I doubt Trump will donate significantly more than the $56 million he’s donated to date. Even he knows he’s going to lose, so why bother.
It seems like the consensus is that a close or subsurface detonation of a nuke to deflect the collision course of an asteroid would probably be the most viable option.
Nasa has already identified 90% of the NEO population >1km. An asteroid would have to be over half a mile wide to do any significant damage. the one that screwed the Dinosaurs was 7-8 miles wide.
The only current threat we have is an asteroid that will pass in 2028 which will pass nearly 2 1/2 times the distance of the moon. it is 1 mile wide.
