This Week, NASA Is Pretending An Asteroid Is On Its Way To Smack The Earth

A stripe of red dots shows the "risk corridor" for a hypothetical asteroid strike, part of an exercise held by planetary defense experts in which they analyze data about a fictional asteroid this week.

A fictitious asteroid is the focus of a realistic exercise, as experts at the Planetary Defense Conference run through how the Earth would respond to news of a looming asteroid strike.

(Image credit: Landsat / Copernicus/Google Earth / Dept of State Geographer)




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Source: NPR Space News