[EAS] Time for new code? Asteroid impact Alert

[Robert Bunge]

When it comes to these events, most will think of the "big" ones because of the movies.  More likely are events like Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.  These smaller asteroids won't be detected until they are pretty close, and now we see the technology might be able to provide anywhere from hours to minutes of warning.  Roughly 1500 people were injured at Chelyabinsk, and several thousand buildings damaged in freezing weather.  A good collection of videos is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU  

Now image an event like that over a major metro area.

As to authority, it might be easier than the ICBM issue.  NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office would seem to be a nature.

https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense 

Below is a link to a set of slides presented by a member of the NASA office at a DC area Astronomy Club in 2018. It makes for interesting reading if you are into these things. 

https://www.novac.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NASA-PDCO-at-NOVAC.pdf

Cheers,

Bob

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:12 AM Suzanne Goucher <suzanne at mab.org> wrote:
>I don't know - what color is Preparation H?  (Sorry for the borderline scatological humor. "Asteroid" is a fraught term in our family. ;) )

>> On Jun 26, 2019, at 10:37 PM, Bill Ruck <ruck at lns.com> wrote:
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>> What color is proposed to be assigned to this one?
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