The European Space Agency (ESA) and national agencies in North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa, will create a group of experts to coordinate “global response” to the threat of asteroids passing close to Earth.
International experts meeting in Madrid in 2013 said they had no record of that in the solar system’s asteroids 600,000 , of which 10,000 are listed as coming-Earth objects, or NEOs, its acronym English.
The new group will coordinate the technological knowledge of the various agencies, basic research and development, impact mitigation measures and asteroid deflection missions , as reported by the ESA in a statement.
Prevention before the asteroid impact
Planning and Advisory Group Space Mission (SMPAG, its acronym in English), was established under the UN mandate to develop a strategy on how to react to the possible impact of an asteroid.
history of this prevention is the impact, on 15 February, a unknown object about 17-20 meters in diameter queexplotó in the sky over Chelyabinsk Russia, releasing energy equivalent to 20-30 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
The shockwave from the explosion caused hundreds of casualties and widespread damage, according to the ESA, which was added to the largest natural object entering the Earth’s atmosphere from another object which in 1908 destroyed a forest area in Tunguska, Siberia.
“The SMPAG develop and refine a series of missions of reference, which can be individual or joint, which have been carried out to intercept asteroids,” said the director of NEO Segment ESA Detlef Koschny, who explained that included previous missions and subsequent evaluations to test the technology before it has a “real threat”.
Over 30 representatives from 13 agencies will meet on 6 and 7 February at the Operations Center in Darmstadt (Germany) with seven ministers from various countries and the UN to share knowledge, show the latest research related to impact cases and develop a work plan for the next two years.
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