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40: Keeping an eye on asteroids with Dr. Yeomans
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:12:15
Publish Date: 2016-04-10 11:00:00
Description:

Dr. Don Yeomans, head of JPL’s Near-Earth Object office until his recent retirement, describes how the field of asteroid discovery has changed over the decades. He recalls  when early data indicated that asteroid Apophis had a small chance of hitting the Earth (spoiler alert: today, with more data, we know that Apophis will not hit the Earth).
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