Asteroid Defense Conference - You Know, You've Been There, Marina.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Every two years we have this planetary defense conference. If an asteroid is headed for the Indian Ocean and we have technology that could help it, who pays for that mission? Right. He says there's no financial incentives for companies to allow an asteroid to hit us. And if you don't fully execute that, then you have other target, the other asteroid has new targets.

Neil has his own asteroid?! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Marcia Belsky answer fan questions about different types of asteroids with Marina Brozovic, orbital dynamicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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