We Are Shockingly Unprepared for a World-Ending Asteroid

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We still don’t still don’t know where nearly 60 percent of world threatening, near-Earth asteroids are in the cosmos.

successfully slammed a spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid roughly 7 million miles away at 7:14 p.m.—marking the first ever test of a kinetic impact device to change the trajectory of a space rock.

The DART mission is NASA’s first test of a kinetic impactor to try to deflect the orbit of an asteroid.don’t know where nearly 60 percent of world threatening, near-Earth asteroids are in the cosmos. And as we saw in 2013 in the skies above Chelyabinsk, it only takes one big object to slip past our detection to cause massive destruction. That’s why it’s imperative that the NEO Surveyor get up and running as soon as possible. “Finding them is a big part of what we do,” Johnson explained.

Perhaps the most disconcerting part, though, is the fact that we humans can’t seem to work together or agree on anything at all—. Look no further than how the world at large is reacting—or, rather, not reacting—to the growing climate crisis. This is something scientists have been warning about for decades, and we still can’t agree on basic guardrails to ensure temperatures don’t rise.

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