Asteroid Day

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https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcas...

Live webcast with
Host: Brian Cox, physicist, School of Physics and Astronomy, Uni of Manchester
Rusty Schweickart, US Apollo 9 Astronaut; Co-founder of Asteroid Day and B612
Ed Lu, three time US Shuttle Astronaut; Co-founder, B612
Dorin Prunariu, first Romanian Astronaut; ASE president, UN COPUOS
Michel Tognini, two time ESA astronaut, trained French Air Force pilot
Jean-François Clervoy, three time ESA astronautandFrench engineer
Nicole Stott, two time US Shuttle Astronaut, Aquanaut and SciArt Advocate
Susan McKenna-Lawlor, astrophysicist, Principal Investigator, Giotto
Julia De Leon, astrophysicist, Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias
Mark Boslough, physicist Chair of Asteroid Day Expert Panel
Patrick Michel, planetary scientist, researcher at the CNRS
Marco Fuchs, Owner and CEO OHB SE
Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg"

Interesting.

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Boring_Chris said:

It did seem like the trash Right leaning sites were the worst for it.

They tend to be run by survivalist types selling survival kits, so a bit of disaster always keeps the money rolling in.

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Boring_Chris said:

The news outlets have been packed full of asteroid / meteor stories recently. Are they slowly buttering us up for the end of the world? Or have I missed something.

Now you know why.

"In the new TV thriller "Salvation," premiering today (July 12) on CBS, an unlikely collection of heroes — an MIT student, a public affairs officer, an eccentric billionaire and a Pentagon official — try to deflect an asteroid hurtling toward Earth."

https://www.space.com/37456-salvation-thriller-tv-...

This happens so often, there are some very clever PR people out there.

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Yep.