An asteroid collision took place in space. can we hear it? why or why not?
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What would we do if there were a small but significant chance that the Earth was about to be hit by a massive asteroid? This week, scientists and government organizations are planning for just such an eventuality.
At the Planetary Defense Conference in the Washington, DC, area, a number of government organizations, including NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are undergoing a mock asteroid impact exercise. (This is the sixth asteroid practice scenario of which NASA has been a part.)
Starting this week, an international team of scientists, engineers, and decision makers such as FEMA officials began performing a fake but realistic drill of what would happen if an asteroid were on a direct collision path with our planet (Similar practices have been done to simulate pandemics caused by bioweapons.)
The fictional asteroid, named PDC, is given 1-in-100 odds (the level at which action would be taken if the situation were real) of striking Earth. Each day, the group leaders brief the participants with updates on the situation and ask for ideas and feedback on how to handle fact-finding missions, possible deflection attempts, and how to minimize any possible effects if there’s no way of stopping it from hitting Earth.