NASA Considers Capturing an Asteroid, Setting It to Orbit the Moon
- By Wired UK
- 01.03.13
- 12:09 PM
By Philippa Warr, Wired UK
NASA is reportedly considering capturing an asteroid to put in a high orbit around the moon.
The Keck Institute for Space Studies in California confirmed that NASA is giving serious consideration to the project which, if implemented, could come to fruition in the 2020s.According to New Scientist, the idea behind the asteroid relocation may tie in with the Obama administration’s enthusiasm for sending a manned mission to a near-Earth asteroid. If NASA robotically fetches and places an object in orbit around the moon, a crewed space craft could practice engaging with it without needing to move beyond the range of a rescue mission.
The Keck version of events would take six to ten years and would see a craft heading to the target asteroid and capturing it in a big bag before bringing it back to the moon.
The potential uses of such an endeavour include testing methode of using space objects as sources of fuel or building material for deeper space missions — perhaps even a voyage to Mars.
Source: Wired.co.uk
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SiDevilIam • a few seconds ago NASA on Steroids, Oops, Asteroids Misssion
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hemipw54 • 3 months ago More mass, more tidal influence, smart, NASA killing mankind little by little.
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mark wilk hemipw54 • 3 months ago If you get your GED someday hemipw54, why don’t you calculate the relative mass of a 7 meter asteroid vs the mass of the moon and explain how much it would actually change the tides? You won the most ignorant poster on Wired hands down for 2012 and you are certainly making a strong start for 2013.
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danielravennest mark wilk • 3 months ago Not to mention asteroids hit the Moon all the time and add to it’s mass. Take a close look at any closeup picture of the moon. See all those craters? Yup, falling asteroids.
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mark wilk danielravennest • 3 months ago Hemi isn’t going to look at any pictures of the Moon, haven’t you read his previous posts? NASA’s pictures are all boring!
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Sagebrusher mark wilk • 3 months ago Not only boring, but according to him completely made up!
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Ethan_Nino mark wilk • 3 months ago Plus, Hemip is a troll that’s really only interested in egging everyone on.
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Ethan_Nino hemipw54 • 3 months ago You got Flagged.
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Jose Delgado • 3 months ago WOW… Anyway,
no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If
we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people
for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love
of power.These guys are getting greedy.. and in tern will blow humanity to dust by dragging those rocks towards us. Hopefully I don’t live that long to see that happen.
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Tony Jose Delgado • 3 months ago hopefully
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Guest • 3 months ago Won’t that cause an increase in tidal forces?
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gopher652003 Guest • 3 months ago No. The entire asteroid belt (including 1000+ kilometre across Ceres) adds up to only 4% of the mass of the moon. Even if we brought the entire belt into Earth’s orbit we’d barely notice it. They’re only talking about a 10 meter across asteroid. It’s smaller than your house, in all likelihood. It’s insignificantly small compared to a planet or even our moon.
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Richard Alexander • 3 months ago It takes 3 days to get a craft from Earth to Moon, and that’s if it is standing ready on the launch pad. The only thing a “rescue” mission from Earth to Moon is going to rescue are the remains of the craft and crew!
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plusnine Richard Alexander • 3 months ago I think they meant that they would either have a rescue crew based on the Moon or orbiting the Moon. One crew would leave from the Moon or an orbiting mothership, land on the asteroid and come back.
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James Corbin • 3 months ago What the Hell for???
Fix the damn economy and end the wars first. - 0 1
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Juan • 3 months ago What about travel space riding the asteroids? what about to put some cameras aboard and let them in their course? why build spacesships when we have asteoids traveling without fuel?
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slayerwulfe • 3 months ago my first response,what 4, my evaluation 4 the best of reasons. i would that we provide the funding to make it happen sooner than the proposed target date.
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Gaby De • 3 months ago Three days after the mission…”Due to NASA gravely miscalculating the trajectory of the asteroid, half of Europe is gone.
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L Kimiko Borges • 3 months ago Wha-wha-WHY? -So Earths gravitational/magnetic pull can ‘tug-of-war’ the astroid right into us?? -and we shouldn’t forget those uncontrollable sun storms that affect that gravitational/magnetic pull…Well this just sounds like a bad idea all around! Maybe the Mayan’s weren’t so far off. The end of the world might be 2021, and not 2012.
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Magnum Opus L Kimiko Borges • 3 months ago Whenever NASA gets into theorizing about the manipulation of celestial bodies, it should cause great concern.
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Mike Rucker L Kimiko Borges • 3 months ago I’m pretty sure they’ve got some pretty smart astrophysicists handling this situation and not some hollywood filmmakers…..
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Sagebrusher L Kimiko Borges • 3 months ago The asteroid would be the size of a house or smaller
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L Kimiko Borges • 3 months ago Wha-wha-WHY? -So Earths gravitational/magnetic pull can ‘tug-of-war’ the astroid right into us?? -and lets not forget the fabulous, uncontrollable sun storms that affect that gravitational/magnetic pull…Well this just sounds like a bad idea all around! Maybe the Mayan’s weren’t so far off. The end of the world might be 2021, and not 2012…Hmmm…
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Nick_Lopez_Loya • 3 months ago The chinese are planning something similar. Hopefully either one achieves it, that would be awesome
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Eddie Draper • 3 months ago I like this idea. I believe it is time that we start trying to bring sci-fi to real life. In the past, it has create technological leaps. For example, tablets. A PC so small that it was just a little thicker then paper was unheard of back when Star Trek introduced the idea as Sci-fi. There are many other shows that that are sci-fi that have asteroids in them. For example, the anime/manga of Gundam. In this series, they have space colonies and they use asteroids as resources, which they called, resource satiates.
The only thing that bothers me is using a robot to bring this asteroid to the moons orbit. If something goes wrong we now have a run away asteroid. I’d rather see a man-ed ship go out and bring on back. Besides how big of an asteroid are we talk about here? size of a car, bus, airplane?
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Sagebrusher Eddie Draper • 3 months ago Was that in TOS or TNG?
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Ethan_Nino • 3 months ago I know it takes a LOT of thrust, or a long time in the case of ion engines, to move even a small asteroid, but 7m seems kinda small to be landing people on it, can’t we go for something a little bigger?
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Eduardo Duran • 3 months ago Dr. Evil? No, more like Space Odyssey.
A U.S. government agency, will place an asteroid in orbit around the moon. Very exciting and very cutting edge. Hopefully no hidden existential issues will be encountered on the rock’s surface. - 0
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BillCornelius • 3 months ago I recall there was some plan to put asteroids in special orbits for transport spacecraft, sort of like bus routes. people stay deep inside them and hundreds of feet of rock provide high velocity radiation shielding.
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musterion • 3 months ago Ummm, how about getting replacement weather satellites, or replacing the ones that look at the sun and detect solar flares, or something to clean up all of the particulate crap in orbit?
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NASA to Get $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission, Senator Says
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NASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson says.
The $100 million will probably be part of President Barack Obama’s federal budget request for 2014, which is expected to be released next week, Nelson (D-FL) said. The money is intended to get the ball rolling on the asteroid-retrieval project, which also aims to send astronauts out to the captured space rock in 2021.
“This is part of what will be a much broader program,” Nelson said Friday (April 5), during a visit to Orlando. “The plan combines the science of mining an asteroid, along with developing ways to deflect one, along with providing a place to develop ways we can go to Mars.”
NASA’s plan involves catching a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) with a robotic spacecraft, then towing the space rock to a stable lunar orbit, Nelson said. Astronauts would then be sent to the asteroid in 2021 using NASA’s Orion capsule and Space Launch System rocket, both of which are in development.
The idea is similar to one proposed last year by researchers based at Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies in Pasadena.
“Experience gained via human expeditions to the small returned NEA would transfer directly to follow-on international expeditions beyond the Earth-moon system: to other near-Earth asteroids, [the Mars moons] Phobos and Deimos, Mars and potentially someday to the main asteroid belt,” the Keck team wrote in a feasibility study of their plan.
NASA will need much more than this initial $100 million to make the asteroid-retrieval mission happen. The Keck study estimated that it would cost about $2.6 billion to drag a 500-ton space rock back near the moon.
Nelson said he thinks the Obama Administration is in favor of the asteroid-retrieval plan. In 2010, the president directed NASA to work to get astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, then on to the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s.
News of the potential $100 million allocation is not a complete surprise, as Aviation Week reported late last month that NASA was seeking that amount in 2014 for an asteroid-retrieval program.
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Joseph H Rogers · Phoenix, ArizonaSo what happens if an unseen object knocks it out of it’s stable lunar orbit careening into the earth?
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Roy Harvie · Top CommenterDuh, the same thing if an unseen object knocks any one of hundreds of satellites we have orbiting earth now, or the space station, or other space junk.Reply ·· 43 minutes ago
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James Lane · Top Commenter · Tullahoma High SchoolWe can “accidentally” drop it on North Korea or Iran.Oh no our bad……Or the true enemies of we Americans……….CANADIANS! Beware the Eh menace!Reply ·· 3 hours ago
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Marc FriesWe can do things with this… For one, we could explore the asteroid belt with small, autonomous sample-return mini-probes. We send a lot of them out there and get samples back from the full range of asteroid types. The problem with that approach is that the mass and complexity required to make those mini-probes capable of landing on Earth is problematic. But if we could bring them back to a near-Earth body such as a captured asteroid instead, and collect them there, then that would make the mission much more do-able. Interesting.Reply ·· 5 hours ago
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Kevin O Sullivan · Works at Raddison Blu Hotelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dVzR0kzklRE#!
Something like this ?Reply ·· 3 hours ago
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Jay Haarburger · Top Commenter · Cleveland State UniversityGreat idea! Not only will it give a stepping stone (no pun intended) for the Plymouth Rock Mission, but we’ll be sending astronauts to the trojan moon! Never thought of that type of mission, and a very ingenious program! Wonder what we’d call this artificial trojan moon, and if they’d collect it and bring it back for study or just visit it and give the Moon a trojan moon for good?Reply ·· 5 hours ago
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Ronald Gowan · Dallas, TexasGreat idea! If that could be done with a comet, it could be mined for rocket fuel (H2O, O2)
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Mike Colwell · Top Commenter · Redford High SchoolLasso an Asteroid?? Can we attach, N.Korea & Iran to the other end?? Ok, How bout California, before they drag us all down. Lol!!!Reply ·· 7 hours ago
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Clay Davis · Contract Driver at Phoenix Flower ShopsSo the mountain will come to Muhammad so to speak.Reply ·· 8 hours ago
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NASA mulls asteroid capture mission, eventual manned visits
By William Harwood /
CBS News/ April 5, 2013, 10:36 PM

An Orion spacecraft designed for deep space exploration is shown in Earth orbit. A proposed NASA mission to capture and haul a small asteroid back to Earth’s vicinity could be a target for manned visits by the early 2020s. / NASA
NASA is working on plans to robotically capture and tow a small asteroid back to Earth’s vicinity by the end of the decade. To learn more about unmanned drones click here. This would set the stage for manned visits to learn more about the threat asteroids pose, the resources they represent and to help perfect the technology needed for eventual flights to Mars.

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“This is part of what will be a much broader program,” Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fl, said in a statement late Friday. “The plan combines the science of mining an asteroid, along with developing ways to deflect one, along with providing a place to develop ways we can go to Mars.”
According to a mission overview obtained by CBS News, the rationale for the proposed asteroid retrieval project is based on NASA’s long-range goals of advancing technology development; providing opportunities for international cooperation; developing new industrial capabilities; and helping scientists better understand how to protect Earth if a large asteroid is ever found on a collision course.
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The program also would help NASA develop the navigation, rendezvous and deep space operations experience needed for eventual manned flights to the red planet.
“I hope it goes forward,” said Rusty Schweickart, a former Apollo astronaut who helped found the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to building and launching a privately funded space telescope to search for threatening asteroids.
“Asteroids are a very, very interesting area,” he told CBS News in a telephone interview. “They’re a hell of a resource, and I think the potential for long-term resource development for use in space is going to be a very big thing. And this is sort of step one. It’s a baby step in a way, but it should be very interesting.”
As for the threat asteroids pose to Earth, Schweickart said “I don’t want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.”

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Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine first reported the proposed asteroid retrieval mission, saying NASA’s fiscal 2014 budget request would include $100 million to get the project underway.
“Suggested last year by the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology, the idea has attracted favor at NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,” Aviation Week reported. “President Obama’s goal of sending astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025 can’t be done with foreseeable civil-space spending, the thinking goes.
“But by moving an asteroid to cislunar space — a high lunar orbit or the second Earth-Moon Lagrangian Point (EML2), above the Moon’s far side — it is conceivable that technically the deadline could be met.”
Louis Friedman, former director of the Planetary Society and a co-author of the original Keck study, said the proposed mission “is quite an exciting idea” that supports President Obama’s 2010 call for sending astronauts to an asteroid.

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“It turns out, a first mission to an asteroid is still a big step, too big a step, because you’d need a much larger launch vehicle than we’re building, you’d need a crew support system that could last for at least nine months in space because of the round-trip time,” Friedman said in a telephone interview. “If we have to wait for that, it would be a couple of decades.
“But the nice idea here is we can robotically move the asteroid closer to Earth and do the mission as soon as … the 2020s, the goal is 2025. By moving the asteroid here, we have a much safer, earlier first step for humans going beyond the moon.”
The mission has “both technical advantages and scientific advantages because we’re actually exploring an object instead of going to empty space,” he said. “It also has an excitement about it because we get the robotic mission, which is a very interesting idea, moving an asteroid close to Earth … and then sending astronauts up to visit it.”
The Keck study estimated a cost of about $2.65 billion to capture and return a carbonaceous asteroid roughly 20 feet across. NASA officials had no official comment Friday and the mission outline obtained by CBS News did not include cost estimates.
But the proposed NASA project closely follows the Keck scenario. The outline indicates a three-pronged approach, starting with enhanced efforts to identify suitable targets. The idea is to find a number of near-Earth asteroids roughly 20 to 30 feet in diameter in favorable orbits that would permit capture and transport to Earth’s vicinity.
“The only real question when you come right down to it is the size, because obviously as you get smaller and smaller and smaller, it becomes more and more feasible to do it,” Schweickart said. “As you get smaller, the biggest problem you have is knowing where the heck to find one. We don’t have a lot of seven-meter objects in our database.”
But multiple candidates are needed “because any kind of a schedule slip and that asteroid that you were going to go to may not be back for 15 or 20 years,” Schweickart said. “So you need to have a whole set of these things.”
Along with improving asteroid detection, NASA hopes to start work on developing a robotic spacecraft based on a 30-kilowatt to 50-kilowatt solar-electric propulsion system that could rendezvous with the asteroid, capture it in a bowl-like receptacle and maneuver it back to Earth’s vicinity.
A “notional” timeline in the mission overview shows a test flight in the 2017 timeframe followed by a rendezvous and capture mission in 2019. The asteroid then would be hauled back to cislunar space by around 2021.
Asteroids roughly the size of the desired candidate hit Earth’s atmosphere on a regular basis and typically break up harmlessly in the atmosphere. For comparison, the meteor that exploded over Russia in February — the largest known body to strike the Earth in a century — was roughly 50 feet across.
In any case, the proposed mission outline indicated any effort to move even a small asteroid back to Earth’s vicinity would be built around a fail-safe trajectory that would result in a lunar impact, at worse, if anything went wrong.
The third element of the proposed program would utilize NASA’s Orion crew capsule and a new heavy-lift booster to ferry astronauts to the asteroid for an up-close examination and sample return.
Two NASA teams currently are studying the proposed mission. One is focusing on identifying suitable asteroids and developing the unmanned systems needed to capture and return a candidate to Earth’s vicinity. The other is studying manned rendezvous and sample-return scenarios.
“There is much forward work to do to better characterize the cost, schedule and mission requirements, and focus an observation campaign to find candidate asteroids,” according to the mission outline. “The study work will be done in FY 2013. Many key out-year elements are already in the budget.”
Friedman said the proposed mission would be reminiscent of the Apollo moon program, “of having humans go to a celestial object and make measurements that are of interest to various scientific communities.”
In the wake of the Russian meteor and a larger asteroid that passed close to Earth the same day, Friedman joked, “if you’re not interested in asteroids, what are you interested in?”
Lawmakers to discuss dangerous asteroids, meteors in hearing today
In light of Earth’s most recent brushes with asteroids, the Science, Space and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing today (March 19) to assess what kind of threat space rocks pose.
The first in a series of meetings, “Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1,” will examine ways in which the government — with help from agencies like NASA and the Air Force — can help protect the Earth from dangerous asteroids that could impact our planet.
Today’s hearing will begin at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), and will be streamed live online. You can watch the asteroid threat House hearing on SPACE.com, courtesy of NASA.
“Today’s events are a stark reminder of the need to invest in space science,” Rep Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the Science, Space and Technology committee, said in on Feb. 15, when a meteor exploded over Russia on the same day that a large asteroid buzzed close by Earth.
On that day, the 150-foot-wide (40 m) asteroid, 2012 DA14 flew harmlessly by Earth as predicted by NASA scientists. Astronomers had been monitoring the space rock since last year when it was discovered by amateur astronomers in Spain. Scientists observed the rock as it passed within 17,200 miles (27,681 km) of the Earth’s surface (a close shave in astronomical terms). [See Pictures of asteroid 2012 DA14's Flyby]
On the same day, a smaller, previously undetected meteor exploded in the sky over a populated part of the Ural Mountains in Russia.
“An unforeseen meteor (estimated 50 feet in diameter) exploded in the sky above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk releasing the equivalent of a 300 kiloton bomb, about twenty times the explosive energy of the atomic blast used over the city of Hiroshima,” congressional officials wrote in the hearing’s charter.
The hearing today will focus on the basics of tracking a meteor or asteroid, according to the charter. According to the hearing’s charter, some of the questions congressional representatives hope to answer include:
Do we have the tools and technology necessary to detect and track near Earth objects?
How often do we currently observe large meteors entering the atmosphere safely over the ocean?
Are we tracking the right size objects, specifically the ones that can cause significant harm on Earth?
Once we identify an object, what are our means of tracking it?
What are our contingencies and mitigation capabilities if we determine there is a threat to the Earth from a NEO impact?
What process exists among government agencies, both foreign and domestic, in such an instance?
Three experts will take questions during the hearing. John Holdren, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, advises President Barack Obama on issues related to science and technology.
Gen. William Shelton, the current commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, and NASA administrator Charles Bolden will also address the committee.
NASA’s Near-Earth Objects Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. is responsible for investigating many of the meteors and asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth.
“Basically, our office takes observations from astronomers all over the world and computes their orbits and then tracks their motion about 100 years into the future to see if there is any interesting close Earth approaches for comets or asteroids,” Don Yeomans, the director of the NEO program told SPACE.com during a video interview.
A second congressional hearing will focus on international efforts to survey the sky for asteroids and meteors, but organizations like the United Nations are calling attention to issues involving the detection of near-Earth objects today as well.
After the destruction in Russia, the Action Team on Near-Earth Objects of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, led by Sergio Camacho, proposed the formation of an advisory group that would monitor dangerous near-Earth objects.
“Mr. Camacho’s team, also known as Action Team 14, recommended the formation of an International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), which would pool together the expertise of the world’s many existing scientific agencies and organizations to discover and track objects and generate early warnings of potential impacts,” United Nations officials wrote in a statement.
Follow Miriam Kramer on Twitter @mirikramer and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This article was first published on SPACE.com.
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United Nations reviewing asteroid impact threat
By Leonard David /
Space.com/ February 18, 2013, 9:43 AM

Scientist now say the meteor that exploded over Russia was bigger and heavier than they first thought – 55 feet long and weighing 10,000 tons
The Russian fireball and the close flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday (Feb. 15) came at a moment in time when the United Nations is discussing international response to the near-Earth object impact concern.
Detailed discussions about the Russian meteor explosion and Earth’s encounter with asteroid 2012 DA14 were high on the Feb. 15 agenda of Action Team-14 during the 50th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), being held from Feb. 11 to 22 at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna.
The multi-year work of Action Team-14 (AT-14) is focused on pushing forward on an international response to the impact threat of asteroids and other near-Earth objects (NEOs).
Up for discussion at the Vienna gathering is the report: “Near-Earth Objects, 2011-2012, Recommendations of the Action Team on Near-Earth Objects for an International Response to the Near-Earth Object Impact Threat.” [See video of the Russian meteor explosion]
Future threatening asteroids
“This event in Russia and the pass of the larger asteroid 2012 DA14 are good reminders that many thousands of objects like it pass near Earth daily,” said Ray Williamson, a senior advisor to the Secure World Foundation and a participant in the Vienna gathering.
Secure World Foundation is a private operating foundation dedicated to the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples.

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Williamson said that some objects will be larger and cause considerable damage if they strike Earth. Furthermore, it is critical that efforts continue to identify and track asteroids in order to counter the largest ones before they do serious damage to population centers.
“Work is continuing within the United Nations on developing international responses to future threatening asteroids. Given the uncertainties concerning where such asteroids might strike Earth and how much damage they might do, international responses will be critical,” Williamson told SPACE.com.
Also taking part in the UN NEO working group is space scientist, Detlef Koschny of the European Space Agency’s European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
“The day before we thought it is great timing that 2012 DA14 flies by in the evening … and were shocked when in the morning we learned about the Russia event,” Koschny told SPACE.com. “What a coincidence. Was this a cosmic warning shot? It makes you think.”
Timely warnings
For its part, the UN Action Team-14 has been deliberating over the years regarding the makeup and focus of an Information, Analysis and Warning Network (IAWN), designed to gather and analyze NEO data and provide timely warnings to national authorities should a potentially hazardous NEO threaten Earth.
That report and its findings are being shouldered by Sergio Camacho who chairs the Action Team on NEOs — a group that was established in 2001.
But gluing together a planetary defense strategy is not easy and includes a number of components: from finding potentially hazardous objects, predicting their future locations, and providing warning about future impacts with the Earth.

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Images from asteroid 2012 DA14′s near-Earth flyby (pictures)
Furthermore, such a strategy also involves missions to deflect impacting asteroids by changing their orbit, as well as disaster preparedness management and, in the event of a NEO strike, shaping a mitigation and recovery plan to counteract consequences.
The need for an IAWN had been identified in the September 2008 report: “Asteroid Threats: A Call for a Global Response,” a document prepared by an expert panel convened by the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) to assist the work of AT-14.
Here is an excerpt of the 2008 asteroid threat report.
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society’s Ad Astra and Space World magazine, and has written for SPACE.com since 1999.Follow SPACE.com on Twitter @Spacedotcom. We’re also on Facebook & Google+.
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