Washington, January 12, 2016, 10:03 – REGNUM Division for the Coordination of planetary defense has appeared in NASA. The main task of the new unit of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is to protect the Earth from cosmic threats. This was in January, it was reported on the news portal NASA.
According to the report on the agency’s website, each year scientists discover about 1.5 thousand near-Earth cosmic bodies. Now experts have discovered more than 13, 5 thousand objects of different sizes and masses that are in near-Earth space.
Thus, the Department for the Coordination of planetary defense will monitor all projects NASA, which are aimed at the search for and study of celestial objects such as asteroids and comets that pass close to Earth’s orbit. Also, the new unit will coordinate responses to potential threats that may come from outer space. According to the publications of the American media to protect against asteroids is not ruled out the use of nuclear explosions aimed.
One of the reasons why the unit was established, according to NASA, is the fall in February 2013 of a meteorite in the Chelyabinsk region. Therefore, last week at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to set up this unit. It is known that the chief specialist of the project was the Lindley Johnson , formerly a scientist was the head of the program NASA’s tracking of near-Earth objects.
Previous IA REGNUM It is reported that experts NASA conducted studies and estimated that by 2075 because of the critical melting of glaciers in the world can happen flood, in consequence of which the water can be Tokyo, Amsterdam, London and the United States.
In order to make such a conclusion scientists first collected and analyzed all relevant information and then entered data into a supercomputer, which predicted a possible future world.
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