Thursday, January 2, 2014

The B612 Foundation: Finding the asteroids coming from our blind spot

Anytime you think you've had a bad day, just reflect on the fact that you haven't seen one of these coming:


Unfortunately, we have up to now only been able to see/track asteroids that are out where we can see them: on the side away from the sun, so the sun's light shines on them.

On the other side, we're looking right into the sun and the asteroids disappear. This is apparently what happened last year at Chelyabinsk in Siberia.

These things can ruin one's whole day.

Since our government is paralyzed when it comes to important things like this (although one would think it could be spun as "national defense"), there's a private foundation working on a satellite to be able to view the blind spot.

The B612 Foundation is that foundation and they're getting my support. How about you?

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