{"id":642624,"date":"2013-02-15T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69544"},"modified":"2013-02-15T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T22:39:19","slug":"can-we-deflect-meteors-and-asteroids-a-tedx-talk-that-describes-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642624","title":{"rendered":"Can we deflect meteors and asteroids? A TEDx talk that describes how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAlF4xxRTwI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a humbling day to be an Earthling.\u00a0Just sixteen hours before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news174.html\">the highly-anticipated flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14<\/a>, the skies above the Chelyabinsk region of Russia were shattered by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/15\/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215\">the explosion of an incoming meteor<\/a>. Although fortunately nobody appears to have been killed by the blast,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/15\/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215\">more than 1,000 people reported injuries<\/a>, mostly from flying glass and debris.<\/p>\n<p>We know that these objects are out there, but what are scientists doing to locate them? And how would we respond if one were found to be on a collision course with our planet?<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tedxmarin.org\/\">TEDxMarin<\/a>, Dr. Ed Lu gave a fascinating talk highlighting the efforts that scientists like himself are making to detect and deflect near-Earth objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need oil miners and Bruce Willis\u201d to push an asteroid off course, says Dr. Lu. \u201cDeflecting asteroids is not that hard. We have the technology to do something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from_asteroids.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/85939508fd2f98f60ef024dea549972cb2b6442e_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>The bad news? We can\u2019t deflect an asteroid we don\u2019t know is coming.\u00a0And there are a lot of asteroids out there (check out the jaw-dropping graphics at about 6:00). That\u2019s why Dr. Lu and his team are working on satellites to detect them from space \u2014 before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest today: Phil Plait&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from_asteroids.html\">How to defend the earth from asteroids<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This post originally appeared on the TEDx blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tedx.com\/\">Check out more \u00bb<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69544\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69544\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=69544&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/BVZ99FqKfVc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a humbling day to be an Earthling.\u00a0Just sixteen hours before\u00a0the highly-anticipated flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14, the skies above the Chelyabinsk region of Russia were shattered by\u00a0the explosion of an incoming meteor. Although fortunately nobody appears to have been killed by the blast,\u00a0more than 1,000 people reported injuries, mostly from flying glass and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}