An international program to protect the earth from impact catastrophe - Initial steps

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Asteroid Capture, Comets, Earth Environment, Hypervelocity Impact, Meteorite Collisions, Meteoritic Damage, Disasters, Earth Orbital Environments, Impact Damage, International Cooperation

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Risks posed by impacting objects of various sizes are analyzed using the Spaceguard Survey, the 1992 NASA report of International Near-Earth-Object (NEO) Detection workshop. The state-of-the-art technology makes it possible to discover and track nearly all earth-crossing asteroids and short-period comets large enough to threaten global catastrophe. To deal with this hazard a long-term telescopic search is required that reaches stellar magnitude 22 in order to achieve a nearly complete census of objects 1 km or larger. A program can be performed on the basis of an international network of six telescopes of 2-3 m aperture equipped with modern CCD detectors and automatic signal processing capability.

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