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Cosmic Queries – Asteroid Hunters with Marina Brozovic

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You Have to Find the Sleeping Bear Before the Bear Finds You Sleeping

You said that likely if there was any like major event that was going to disrupt Earth with the technology we have now, we'd have decades to prepare. We are really concerned with things that are larger than one kilometer because those are the ones that really have global consequences impact of that. And we have found more than 90% of those objects. So we think there may be maybe several deserts that we still have to find. Some of them are not easy because they could have exotic orbits and can be very inclined.

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