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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ Planetary Society Blog article on 2004 VD17

Posted by: helvick Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM

In case there is anyone here who doesn't keep an eye on Emily's TPS Blog she has just posted http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000473/, an asteroid that currently holds the distinction of having the highest Torino scale rating (2) of any known object. The article is full of all the useful links you could ask for.

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Mar 2 2006, 11:02 PM

QUOTE (helvick @ Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM)

In case there is anyone here who doesn't keep an eye on Emily's TPS Blog...

I'd be interested if anyone would be daft enough to admit that

QUOTE (helvick @ Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM)

...she has just posted http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000473/, an asteroid that currently holds the distinction of having the highest Torino scale rating (2) of any known object. The article is full of all the useful links you could ask for.

I agree. That was one of the more fairly informative blog postings.

Posted by: elakdawalla Mar 3 2006, 12:28 AM

QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 2 2006, 03:02 PM)

I'd be interested if anyone would be daft enough to admit that

I agree. That was one of the more fairly informative blog postings.

These comments made me chuckle because I get the majority of the "tips" for my blog from UMSF!

Thanks though.

--Emily

Posted by: David Mar 3 2006, 12:44 AM

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Apophis (2004 MN4) is the one to watch, because its first close approach is coming up much sooner, in 30 years (2036) -- which is I think a comfortable amount of lead time to actually develop some nifty program combining a long baseline of Earth observations with some little mission. For example, you could impact Apophis with a transponder, and track it really accurately.

That's great, but I'd much prefer it if we could impact Apophis with several pairs of spacesuit boots. 30 years doesn't seem like too short a time to plan -- if we started now.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Mar 4 2006, 04:51 PM

Several Belgian newspapers took up the story saying it's a 1/1000 chance by the year 2104 ...

Posted by: ljk4-1 Apr 4 2006, 02:49 PM

Asteroids: treasures of the past and a threat to the future

If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 – about 500 m in
diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes - collides with the Earth it
could spell disaster for much of our planet. As part of ESA’s Near-Earth Object
deflecting mission Don Quijote, three teams of European industries are now
carrying out studies on how to prevent this.

Full story:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMC43NFGLE_index_0.html