How We REALLY Predict Asteroid Impacts
Sometimes, in movies, astronomers discover an asteroid and instantly determine that it will definitely collide with Earth. Of course, that's nonsense. But how do we actually calculate the trajectory of a potentially hazardous object if we only see it as a point in the sky?
00:00 - Intro
05:20 - Is it possible?
11:15 - Modern methods
21:44 - First attempts
Sources:
Deep Impact
https://gizmodo.com/a-scientist-respo...
Orbits
https://blogs.esa.int/mex/2014/03/07/...
https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-as...
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/Astero...
Student project
https://www.eso.org/public/events/ast...
Asteroid Orbit Determination Project
http://www.columbia.edu/~my2317/aster...
Gauss and Ceres
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~cherl...
https://math.berkeley.edu/~mgu/MA221/...
Book
https://archive.schillerinstitute.com...
Newton
https://principia.blog/2021/03/21/new...
Asteroid search
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/rea...
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense...
Database
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/
https://neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list
ATLAS
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-ast...
NEOSM
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/nea...
Pan-STARRS
http://www2.ifa.hawaii.edu/research/P...