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Asteroid Impact Resources

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Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets

Amazon

The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth, written by Duncan Steel

The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects

Amazon

William E. Burrows presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet

Paul Chodas

Manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at JPL

Jay Tate

Director, The Spaceguard Centre

NASA Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS)

Center for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their probability of Earth impact

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Planetary defense mechanism demonstration and test to be carried out in 2021

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration