How Prepared Is Earth for a Potential Asteroid Collision?

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How Prepared Is Earth for a Potential Asteroid Collision?
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NASA and other world space agencies have been studying this possibility and the forecast for near-earth celestial objects for years. Their efforts helped inform the new film 'Don't Look Up!'

, with Mainzer reprising her role as head surveyor. “March 26, 2026 is our target date on the launch pad,” she says.

To hone that process, NASA has sponsored a series of planetary-defense simulations in which scientists pretend they have discovered a new Earth-threatening asteroid. A, coordinated last spring by Vishnu Reddy at the University of Arizona, imagined that an asteroid similar to Apophis really was on a collision course with us, and then set the participants loose trying to understand what was happening.

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