{"id":377786,"date":"2021-12-07T20:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-unveils-new-weapon-in-war-on-asteroids-an-earth-loving-algorithm\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:57:50","slug":"nasa-unveils-new-weapon-in-war-on-asteroids-an-earth-loving-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-unveils-new-weapon-in-war-on-asteroids-an-earth-loving-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA unveils new weapon in war on asteroids: An Earth-loving algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA unveils new weapon in war on asteroids: An Earth-loving algorithm<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 66 million long years since an asteroid erased the dinosaurs \u2014 and astronomers are getting antsy.<\/p>\n

In the last few months, they\u2019ve warned that space rocks as big as the Eiffel Tower<\/a>, the Empire State Building<\/a>, and the Great Pyramid of Giza<\/a> could all miss Earth by just millions<\/em> of miles.<\/p>\n

In response, NASA is resorting to increasingly desperate measures. After simulating catastrophe impacts<\/a> and slapp<\/a>ing asteroids with spaceships, the agency on Monday unveiled its most outlandish weapon yet: an algorithm.<\/p>\n

Named Sentry-II, the system will evaluate the threats posed by near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). <\/span><\/p>\n

In a press release, NASA said the system can rapidly assess potential impacts for all known NEAs \u2014 with odds as low as a few chances in 10 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Almost 28,000 NEAs have already been discovered. Advances in survey telescopies should lead to a rapid uptick in this number. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/figcaption>