Solutions: Near Earth Objects
Near Earth Objects are objects from space, asteroids, meteors and comets that pass dangerously close to the the Earth on their orbits around the Sun.
We are the only creatures on Earth who have the capability to divert these dangerous bodies from a collision with our home world.
These collisions have happened in the past and these bodies will continue to present themselves in the future.
In 199? Shoemaker-Levy found a comet that months later broke up and smashed into Jupiter with a spectacular fireworks show.
If that comet had smashed into the Earth, none of us would be here today. Nothing larger than a worm would be alive on the Earth. If would have been a complete restart.
Scientists are currently mapping the sky to find the NEOs and there are about 400 currently known.
In 200? a NEO passed between the earth and the moon. This was an astonishgly close call.
Another close visit by the asteroid Apophis is due in 2020? Scientists are alarmed and calling for international cooperation to develop the capability to divert this body into a stable non-threatening orbit.
