The Don Quijote mission — so we don’t go the same way as the dinosaurs.
With some help from colleagues, I recently produced a report on the planned European Space Agency Don Quijote mission to divert an asteroid’s trajectory (kind of a test-run for the real thing that may happen some time in the future) as a 365 Days of Astronomy podcast.
It is reassuring to see humanity beginning to deal with this genuine risk to Earth’s survival — just in case we don’t all get swallowed up in a 2cm black hole in the next five years wink
The transcript is also available for reading on the 365 Days site if you are not a podcast fan.
Thanks
Steve Nerlich (Space Settlement Board member and Death-by-LHC skeptic)
I would suggest they send a nuclear weapon along and see how that works. Not much chance of that- which is not reassuring at all.