{"id":7464,"date":"2014-04-22T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2014-04-22T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:46:30","slug":"b612-foundation-webcast-briefing-today-video-shows-asteroid-impacts-since-year-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"B612 Foundation: Webcast briefing today + Video shows asteroid impacts since year 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/b612foundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">B612 Foundation<\/a>\u00a0today\u00a0released the video below and will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/17709921\" target=\"_blank\">webcasting a news conference<\/a> from Seattle at\u00a02:30 pm EST (11:30 am PST) to discuss it. Here is their description of the video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6b6b6b; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Between 2000 and 2013,\u00a0a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations\u00a0detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons \u2013 all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6b6b6b; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>These findings were recently released from the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates the network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6b6b6b; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>To put this data in perspective, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 exploded with an energy impact of 15 kilotons. While most of these asteroids exploded too high in the atmosphere to do serious damage on the ground, the evidence is important in estimating the frequency of a potential \u201ccity-killer-size\u201d asteroid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6b6b6b; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>For more information on this data, please check out our\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #6b6b6b;\" href=\"https:\/\/b612foundation.org\/impact-video-faq\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #0000ff;\">Impact Video FAQ<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B612 Impact Video 4-20-14 H264\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/92478179?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B612 Foundation\u00a0today\u00a0released the video below and will be webcasting a news conference from Seattle at\u00a02:30 pm EST (11:30 am PST) to discuss it. Here is their description of the video: Between 2000 and 2013,\u00a0a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations\u00a0detected 26 explosions on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B612 Foundation: Webcast briefing today + Video shows asteroid impacts since year 2000<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Wo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7718,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7718","url_meta":{"origin":7464,"position":0},"title":"Video: B612 press conference at Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the complete briefing event held recently by the B612 Foundation on the latest findings for asteroid impacts on earth: Video GalleryB612 Foundation -\u00a0B612 Foundation. 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