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The researchers charged with defending the planet against asteroids
In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, ...
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Space.com talked with Johnson, the space agency's Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus, now in phased retirement mode, about his decades of work in shaping a global response and reaction to a rocky ...
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No, NASA isn't hiring someone to protect us from evil aliens. It's doing something better.
Basically, NASA posted a job listing looking for a full-time "planetary protection officer" to join the agency—and breathless alien hilarity ensued. At a really fundamental level, that's kind of ...
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The Bay Area researchers defending the planet against asteroids
a size that could be “a disaster of the scale of anything we’ve seen,” according to Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus Lindley Johnson, who established the office in 2016. Another 11,266 ...