
The Skeptics Guide #857 - Dec 11 2021
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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The New Impact Monitoring System Could Calculate Deadly Asteroid Orbits
A new impact monitoring system is now on line that could calculate deadly asteroid orbits better than the one that's been calculating for us for the past 20 years. We've detected something like 28 thousand near earth asteroids, and we find an average of eight more every day. Three thousand a year, every year, every day. And how near is near bob? In this context, there's different classes, but near earth is within,. you know, relatively near, within million of miles, many millions of miles.
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