Result of Impact
The reason why the dinosaurs died
What is an asteroid impact?
The Network used by the Department of Defense to track and observe NEOs
What is the Space Surveillance Network?
Currently illegal mitigation method
What is standoff blast/blast deflection?
The impact location of TTX 2022
What is North Carolina?
This type of debris is also known as shooting stars
What are meteorites?
The location of a probably asteroid air burst in 1908
Where is Tunguska, Russia?
Location of NASA's NEOWISE telescope
Where is in space?
Mitigation method most recently demonstrated in the DART mission where a spacecraft impacts upon planetary debris to change its path
What is a kinetic impactor?
Impact Date of TTX 2022
When is August 16th, 2022?
The acronym for Near Earth Objects
What is NEOs?
The name of the crater that is the likely evidence of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
What is the Chicxulub crater?
Also known as CNEOS
What is the Center for Near Earth Object Studies?
Mitigation method for which the theory exists, but not the technology (in the form that would be needed for debris mitigation)
What is laser ablation?
How astronomers tracked TTX 2022
What are optical telescopes?
The third location where planetary debris is found in the solar system other than the asteroid belt and kuiper belt
What is the Oort Cloud?
The location of a small asteroid impact in 2013
Where is Chelyabinsk, Russia?
Detection method used for short term tracking of NEOs
What is Scout?
The mitigation method that needs the longest amount of time to be effective
What is a gravity tractor?
Impact probability of TTX 2022 as of the Day 1 Scenario
What is 71%?
The type of science used to predict the movement of planetary debris
What is physics/orbital mechanics?
The reason why the Moon and Mars have been impacted differently than the Earth by planetary debris
What is the lack of an atomosphere?
Detection method used for long term tracking of NEOs
What is Sentry?
The mitigation method we would be most likely to use on an NEO if it was to be discovered today with an impact date 2 years in the future
What is a kinetic impactor?
Impact time of TTX 2022
When is 2:02:10 pm ET?
Type of planetary debris with highly elliptical orbits and a tail
What are comets?