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    Asteroid impact avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away...
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    Asteroid impact prediction is the prediction of the dates and times of asteroids impacting Earth, along with the locations and severities of the impacts...
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  • the topic has been raised several times, often as a method of asteroid impact avoidance. In the PNE Treaty, the signatories agreed: not to carry out any...
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    DART mission to test the viability of asteroid impact avoidance by collision with a spacecraft, while the impact was witnessed by LICIACube, a flyby CubeSat...
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    (2007). "Tunguska (1908) and Its Relevance for Comet/Asteroid Impact Statistics". Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. pp. 331–339. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_19...
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    be used to instantaneously vaporize a 1 km asteroid, or divert the paths of extinction event class asteroids (greater than 10 km in diameter) with a few...
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  • scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets. It is intended as a communication...
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    increased since the 1980s because of greater awareness of this risk. Asteroid impact avoidance by deflection is possible in principle, and methods of mitigation...
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  • the next 100+ years. Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid impact prediction Earth-grazing fireball Impact event List of asteroid close approaches to Earth...
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    planets like the Earth. Asteroid capture – Orbital insertion of an asteroid around a larger planetary body Asteroid impact avoidance – Methods to prevent...
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