If the risk of a near-miss becomes too high, it remains to be seen whether we will rely on the know-how of Bruce Willis’ bottom drillers or rather consider a …
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Until the 2010s, there was a remote possibility that the Earth would be struck by Apophis, a NEO (Near-Earth Object) asteroid discovered in 2004 by planetologist David Tholen of the …
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Fourth, morphometry based on the comparative analysis of terrestrial craters and those observed on the Moon or Mars for example. So an impact crater is theoretically 24 times the size …
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Geologists from the University of New Brunswick in Canada tell us that at least six clues allow us to authenticate a meteorite impact, based both on macroscopic morphometric and stratigraphic …
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It sometimes happens that witnesses observe a meteor in the sky and a few seconds later witness the fall of a meteorite a few tens or hundreds of kilometers away. …
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Like any subjective measurement and sometimes taking into account the large number of inexperienced observers who send observation reports to the centralizing body, it is necessary to draw a distribution …