NASA to Participate in Tabletop Exercise Simulating Asteroid Impact

Posted on June 12, 2021Comments Off on NASA to Participate in Tabletop Exercise Simulating Asteroid Impact

JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies will lead the hypothetical impact scenario to see how international agencies respond to an actual impact prediction.

UPDATE: 2021 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Tabletop Exercise

EXERCISE ONLY – the information listed under this update summarizes details from a simulated asteroid impact exercise during the 7th International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA) Planetary Defense Conference. The fictitious asteroid, named 2021PDC, is being used solely for the purpose of this exercise. It does not exist and therefore there is no threat to Earth…

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