Moving Flying Mountains: Deflecting Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroids

The near-Earth asteroids are a population of objects on orbits around the Sun that cross or come near Earth's orbit. They can and, rarely, do hit Earth. I will review the near-Earth population, the asteroid impact hazard, and describe proposed projects to demonstrate asteroid deflection to address the small-but-significant risk that we will need to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth in the next few hundred years.

Michael Busch, Research Scientist at the SETI Institute will present.

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