How to kill an asteroid : the real science of planetary defense
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
523.44/ANDREWS,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First Edition
DESCRIPTION
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781324050193, 1324050195 :, 1324050195, 9781324050193
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
There are approximately 25,000 "city killer" asteroids in near-Earth orbit--and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent our greatest cosmic threat. But in September 2022, against all odds, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a carefully selected city killer, altering the asteroid's orbit and proving that we stand a chance against them