When the sky falls: Why and how we track dangerous asteroids
In 2013, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs. The blast injured over a thousand people and shattered windows across six cities. Yet the object—roughly 20 meters wide—had gone completely undetected. That event jolted the world into remembering: space isn’t empty, and Earth isn’t invincible. “Had […]
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