planetary defense

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• Top/Science/Astronomy/Solar System/Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

• - An unprecedented asteroid scare in January 2004 has prompted NASA to set up a formal process for notifying top officials in the future of any impending impacts.
  
• - Describes the threat of a comet impact with Earth and provides a plan of action to survive a large impact.
  
• - An argument for reducing global tension by developing a defense against impacts with Near Earth Objects.
  
• - Article on a meeting of space experts regarding finding and destroying a potential threat from an asteroid.
  
• - A Cincinnati Post news story about a meeting called by the U.S. government on the chances of an asteroid strike and a possible defense for it.
  
• - The UK government is to establish a panel of experts to advise on the risk of the Earth being hit by an asteroid or comet, and plans for evacuation and/or deflection.
  
• - Online calculator for cratering effects of hypothetical asteroid impacts.
  
• - National focus in the UK for studies into the threat posed to the Earth by collisions with asteroids and comets.
  
• - Scientists gather to discuss ways of aggressively defending the planet from an asteroid, including detonating nukes in space.