NASA warned that if an asteroid has a 72% chance of striking Earth in 14 years, and the nation may not be adequately prepared for it.
NASA presented a hypothetical scenario to a group of nearly 100 government representatives warning them that if an asteroid has a 72% chance of striking Earth in 14 years, we might not be adequately prepared for it.
Although there are no known significant asteroid impact threats for the foreseeable future, NASA believes we are not prepared even if we were given a decent amount of warning time, which is why the meeting was designed to help government agencies plan out how they would work together to prepare for a future asteroid strike.
The scenario stipulated that scientists wouldn’t be able to learn more about this threat for more than six months, as the asteroid passed behind the sun – “a critical loss of time.” This exercise marked the first use of data from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. The DART spacecraft’s successful impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022 demonstrated the viability of using a kinetic impactor to alter an asteroid’s path.
NASA’s report on the exercise notes that “many stakeholders expressed that they would want as much information about the asteroid as soon as possible but expressed skepticism that funding would be forthcoming to obtain such information without more definitive knowledge of the risk.”
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