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Potential strike locations of a fictional asteroid Photo: NASA/Google Earth

NASA and FEMA Will Simulate an Impending Asteroid Strike Next Week

May 1, 2019 by Comments are Disabled

Via Gizmodo.com NASA, FEMA, and other national and international agencies are once again gearing up for a hypothetical asteroid impact preparedness scenario. They hope to learn the best strategies for responding to a potential strike, starting from the moment a threatening asteroid is first detected by astronomers. Next week marks the start of the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense […]

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NASA and FEMA Rehearse for the Unthinkable: An Asteroid Strike on Los Angeles

NASA and FEMA Rehearse for the Unthinkable: An Asteroid Strike on Los Angeles

November 16, 2016 by Comments are Disabled

Via The New York Times Imagine if scientists discovered that an asteroid was hurtling toward Los Angeles. The possibility has existed on the pages of Hollywood scripts. But in what may be a case of life imitating art, NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government agencies engaged last month in a planetary protection exercise to consider the potentially […]

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