deo visualization of these findings, showing the impact size range and location of all 26 explosions. The video is posted at https://b612foundation.org/portfolio/impact-video and can also be viewed on YouTube.com. The listing of all locations and size of impacts is also listed with additional FAQs at: https://b612foundation.org/impact-video-faq
Hi res video can also be accessed on the ftp site: ftp://email@example.com@spinefilms.com/Asteroid%20Impact%20Media; user: firstname.lastname@example.org; password: asteroid
Also attending the press conference in Seattle were students from Key Peninsula Middle School. In addition, Astronauts Ed Lu, Tom Jones, and Bill Anders joined Museum of Flight CEO Doug King to visit the Challenger Center at the Museum of Flight to discuss asteroids and space-related assets to detect and track asteroids and field questions from the students.
“While most large asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire country or continent have been detected, less than 10,000 of the more than a million dangerous asteroids with the potential to destroy an entire major metropolitan area have been found by all existing space or terrestrially-operated observatories,” stated Lu. “Because we don’t know where or when the next major impact will occur, the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a “city-killer” sized asteroid has been blind luck.”
The B612 Foundation aims to change that by building the Sentinel Space Telescope Mission, an early warning infrared space telescope for tracking asteroids that would provide many years to deflect an asteroid when it is still millions of miles away. The B612 Sentinel Mission will be the world’s first privately funded deep space mission that will create the first comprehensive dynamic map of our inner solar system, identifying the current and future locations and trajectories of Earth crossing asteroids. Sentinel will detect and track more than 200,000 asteroids in just the first year of operation, after a planned launch in 2018.
The B612 Foundation is named for the asteroid home of the “Little Prince” in the Antoine de Saint-Exupery classic novel. The Little Prince came to realize that what is essential in life, is often invisible to the human eye. Learn more at www.b612foundation.org; on Twitter @b612foundation.