With the recent return of NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Asteroid Bennu - Earth's close encounters with asteroids have been on many peoples' minds equally fascinating and alarming us. But what if we could prevent a potential catastrophe? Let's dive in an explore the groundbreaking methods NASA is researching and implementing to divert these celestial threats.

0:00 The Asteroids That Might Kill Earth
0:34 The Chelyabinsk Asteroid in Russia
1:22 The Destructive Power of Asteroids
2:04 The Tunguska Impact Event
2:49 The Chicxulub Impactor
4:15 The Impossible Task of Spotting Asteroids
5:58 How NASA is Preparing to Deflect Bennu
7:42 Delivering an Spaceship to an Asteroid
8:44 Can You Use a Nuke to Stop an Asteroid?
10:15 Laser Ablation Approaches
11:32 Kinetic Impactors and NASA's DART Mission
13:04 Mass Drivers for Diverting Asteroids
14:46 Yarkovsky Steering of Asteroids
15:40 OSIRIS-REx - Our First Line of Defence

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