{"id":7718,"date":"2014-05-07T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2014-05-07T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:18:51","slug":"video-b612-press-conference-at-seattles-museum-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7718","title":{"rendered":"Video: B612 press conference at Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the complete briefing event held recently by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b612foundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">B612 Foundation<\/a> on the latest findings for asteroid impacts on earth: <a href=\"https:\/\/b612foundation.org\/newsroom\/video-gallery\/?utm_source=Master+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=a8de8076ba-January_2014_Newsletter_NEW_FORMATTING_1_10_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_a5e19079bd-a8de8076ba-101800465#\/b612-press-conference-at-the-seattle-museum-of-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Video GalleryB612 Foundation &#8211;\u00a0B612 Foundation<\/a>. (See also the asteroid impacts video in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7464\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dFeGr4fDnG8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the caption:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a special Earth Day program on April 22, Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Flight hosted three prominent US Astronauts supporting the B612 Foundation for a press conference which unveiled a new video showing the surprising number of asteroid impacts on Earth during the last decade, and the even more surprising fact that we can prevent future asteroid impacts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The visualization shows data from the nuclear weapons test warning network supplied by Peter Brown, Western University of Canada. This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. This shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare &#8212; but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought.&#8221; stated Dr. Lu &#8220;The fact that none of these asteroid impacts shown in the video was detected in advance shows that the only thing preventing a catastrophe from a &#8220;city-killer&#8221; sized asteroid is blind luck. The goal of the B612 Sentinel Mission is to find and track asteroids decades before they hit Earth, allowing us to easily deflect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The B612 Foundation is partnered with Ball Aerospace to build the Sentinel Infrared Space Telescope Mission. From a Venus-like orbit around the Sun, Sentinel will be the most capable system for finding and tracking asteroids ever built.<\/p>\n<p>During the Press Conference, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders unveiled a new mural that highlights the importance of the Sentinel Mission. His EARTHRISE photo shows the Earth rising above the crater-strewn surface of the Moon, and will remain on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight. &#8220;We began Apollo 8 thinking we were going to learn about the Moon, instead, we began a new understanding of our Earth.&#8221; The EARTHRISE photo will serve as the backdrop for the morning Press Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Jones, four-time US Shuttle Astronaut and President of the Association of Space Explorers, explained the recent UN resolution calling for international cooperation for detection of dangerous asteroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the complete briefing event held recently by the B612 Foundation on the latest findings for asteroid impacts on earth: Video GalleryB612 Foundation &#8211;\u00a0B612 Foundation. (See also the asteroid impacts video in the\u00a0earlier post here.) From the caption:\u00a0 In a special Earth Day program on April 22, Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Flight hosted three prominent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: B612 press conference at Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Flight<\/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":[75,37,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-events","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-20u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8033,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8033","url_meta":{"origin":7718,"position":0},"title":"B612 update + Kepler back in action","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the latest newsletter from the B612 Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting earth from asteroid and comet impacts:\u00a0Sentinel and Beyond: The B612 Foundation Newsletter! 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