Posts Tagged ‘Near Earth Objects’

NASA Launches WISE To Spot Near Earth Objects

In her book 2012: Science or Superstition, Alexandra Bruce writes:
We’ve been told since childhood that an asteroid extinguished the mighty dinosaurs in a single day. When we look out at our pockmarked celestial neighbors, we know that something similar could happen here again. Recent discoveries at the bottom of the seas seem to bear this [...]

A New End of the World Date: Not 2012, Not 2036, Now it’s 2068!

Rachel Courtland writes in New Scientist that the asteroid Apophis, previously thought to be on course for impact with Earth in 2036, is now more likely to hit us in 2068.
Alexandra Bruce writes about Apophis and other Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that we may like to worry about in the book 2012: Science or Superstition.
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