Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test - space - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist

Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test - space - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist

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This article in New Scientist is mind-jarring. Until I saw Peter Garretson's (mentioned in this article as leading a Pentagon exercise to evaluate response capabilties) briefing a couple of years ago, I thought the possibility of an asteroid or large meteor striking earth and doing serious damage was primarily science fiction despite the fact that I had known about Meteor Crater in Arizona since I was a child.

There's not much use going around our daily lives panicked about the possibility of being wiped out by an asteroid collision, but we are foolish if we don't at least make what plans we can to minimize death, and look to the future for both notification of these "near earth objects" and what we might do to protect ourselves.