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These are the asteroids to worry about

Veritasium · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Cosmology & astrophysicsSpace exploration & spaceflight

What it is

A Veritasium video on the asteroid threat, with UCLA's Dave Jewitt explaining detection efforts and how different asteroid sizes compare in damage.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it in asteroid threads for how well-tracked large asteroids are and how hard deflection is.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Veritasium video with Dave Jewitt of UCLA explains a lot about what were doing about asteroids.”

    Explains a lot about what's being done about asteroids

    ourmandave, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Algorithm detected over a hundred asteroids after studying old telescope data”

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Topics: asteroids, planetary defense, impact, veritasium, astronomy

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