Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Image credit: B612 Foundationu

They are mean and malicious – and could mess up your day big time here on our home planet.

It is a cosmic roll of the dice. There’s no doubt that a major asteroid strike could cause widespread devastation and profoundly impact life on Earth. To thwart an incoming object that has Earth in its crosshairs means warding off the hazardous space rock.

Enter the heads-up and off-world reality of the private nonprofit B612 Foundation.

This sky rendering is a reconstruction of the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Feb. 15, 2013.
Image credit: Sandia National Laboratories

Advancing knowledge

Since 2002, the Silicon Valley-based organization has engaged in research, education, and promoting the protection of Earth from asteroid impact but also advancing knowledge about the solar system’s evolution and expanding economic development in space.

For more information, go to my new Space.com story – “Can a nonprofit help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids? How the B612 Foundation has taken on the challenge – “The tools we are building are about our planetary future” – at:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/can-a-nonprofit-help-protect-earth-from-dangerous-asteroids-how-the-b612-foundation-has-taken-on-the-challenge