Northern Arizona University: NASA Awards Scientist $848,013 Grant for Ongoing Study of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
July 19, 2022
July 19, 2022
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, July 19 (TNSres) -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news:
Asteroid impacts are the only potentially preventable natural disaster on Earth--assuming a threatening asteroid is detected with enough lead time to launch a mission into space to deflect it.
Through its Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA sponsors projects to track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and other near-Earth objects (NEOs) whose orbit . . .
Asteroid impacts are the only potentially preventable natural disaster on Earth--assuming a threatening asteroid is detected with enough lead time to launch a mission into space to deflect it.
Through its Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA sponsors projects to track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and other near-Earth objects (NEOs) whose orbit . . .