{"id":7860,"date":"2016-10-16T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:10:06","slug":"theyre-still-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/16\/theyre-still-coming-2\/","title":{"rendered":"They’re Still Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

from SPACE.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Mike Wall<\/p>\n

\"Earth
\nArtist’s concept of an asteroid striking Earth.
\nCredit: NASA\/Don Davis<\/cite><\/p>\n

The world is still vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike, according to President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser.<\/p>\n

NASA has made substantial progress in finding the\u00a0asteroids<\/a>\u00a0that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there’s still a lot of work to do, said John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.<\/p>\n

“We are not fully prepared, but we are on a trajectory to get much more so,” Holdren said today (Sept. 14) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, during a discussion of the agency’s planned Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). [Images: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Holdren cited the February 2013 meteor explosion over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk and the 1908 Tunguska airburst as reasons to take the asteroid threat seriously.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Chelyabinsk strike<\/a>, which injured about 1,200 people, was caused by an object that is thought to be about 65 feet (20 meters) wide. The Tunguska event was much more powerful; a space rock perhaps 130 feet wide (40 m) exploded over a mostly unpopulated region of Siberia, flattening 800 square miles (2,070 square kilometers) of forest. Both strikes caught the world completely by surprise.<\/p>\n

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