NASA simulates how the U.S. might respond to asteroid threatening Earth NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it ...

NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth.; Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth.

The NASA simulation had an asteroid with a 72 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2038, impacting North America, Southern Europe, and North Africa.

A screenshot from the Asteroid Launcher impact simulator shows the fireball created by the impact of a 1-kilometer-wide asteroid striking New York City at an angle of 45 degrees while traveling at ...

That’s the hypothetical scenario NASA astronomers tested with a recent simulation in which officials attempted to plan for an asteroid that had a 72% chance of hitting Earth in just 14 years.

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

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This is the hypothetical scenario that asteroid experts, NASA workers, federal emergency management officials, and their international partners recently discussed as part of a table-top simulation ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it. Search Query Show Search.