Sentence examples for asteroid threat from inspiring English sources

Tad Friend on the asteroid threat.

An asteroid threat is a natural hazard that we could probably do something about now with the technology we already have.

In 2008, space experts from the Association of Space Explorers called for a coordinated international action plan, under the umbrella of the United Nations, to counter the asteroid threat.

During the 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, the asteroid 2013 PDC-E was used for an exercise where participants simulated the decision-making process for developing deflection and civil defense responses to a hypothetical asteroid threat.

(Editor's Note: This report turned out to be a false alarm. Please see the ScienceNOW, 6 November, story: " Asteroid Threat Evaporates").

This piece of the new initiative will likely please lawmakers who have already conducted hearings on what NASA and private companies should be doing to tackle the asteroid threat.

The Obama administration is currently promoting an "asteroid grand challenge," in which we're invited "to find all asteroid threats to human populations" and figure out what to do about them.

"This is really a call to action to find all asteroid threats to human populations and know what to do about them," Nasa Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said last week.

Based on the success of this crowdfunding venture, NASA recently unveiled a new asteroid-detection project in partnership with Planetary Resources that would rely on the crowd for the detection of potential asteroid threats.

During her tenure, the federal government has held more than 300 competitions, such as a Department of Energy grand challenge to make solar energy cost-competitive with more traditional sources by the end of the decade, and a grand challenge issued by NASA to plan for asteroid threats to the public.

The group, made up entirely of people who have flown in the space, submitted a report to the U.N. in 2009 titled "Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response".