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Scientists at the detection workshop focused on what they called "the greatest risk" -- the possibility of impact by asteroids with diameters larger than 1 km (3,300 ft.) and impact energies ranging from 100,000 to many millions of megatons, blasts that would have global effects. Though astronomers have found 100 or so of these hulks that can pass through Earth's orbit -- and that might someday pose a threat -- they estimate that there are some 2,000 large "Earth-crossing" asteroids (ECAs) still awaiting discovery...
...hunt down these objects, the workshop proposed the construction of six 2.5-m (98-in.) telescopes, three located in the northern and three in the southern hemisphere. Each would be equipped with advanced versions of the charge-coupled device, a kind of electronic camera, already being used by Tom Gehrels, a University of Arizona astronomer who heads one of three U.S. teams independently searching for asteroids. The CCDs, which record electronic images of celestial objects, would feed into computers that could speedily identify and track asteroids and comets against the background of fixed stars. "It's the right time...
Proceedings at the interception workshop were tumultuous. But there was general agreement about the basic strategy: detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during...
...high school students, nearly all of whomare in Washington participating in the Close-Upprogram, a weeklong workshop on governmentstudies, were aggressive and unusuallysophisticated when challenging the panelists foranswers...
Drew: I think it worked great. On this record we have three songs which are credited to the whole band and they really came out of that jamming workshop that we had. Even the ones that were individually credited were really inspired by the process of learning about writing songs and that workshop that we put ourselves in. So that's how the process worked this time. We literally sat in a room quite often and made noise until something sounded good. Otherwise the individual writer is inspired by our rehearsals and they come up with something and bring...