Planet Impact – Ian Carnelli, Programme Manager at European Space Agency (ESA) – An Inch is Bigger Than You Think: How Scientific Research Prepares us for Potential Catastrophic Asteroid Impact

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Richard Jacobs

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🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The big asteroid is careening towards Earth and NASA is scrambling for a solution to save the planet, along with the help of a few of Hollywood’s biggest actors, we’ve all seen the movie. But truth is sometimes stranger than fiction as the European Space Agency in conjunction with NASA is working now to ensure that this scenario never becomes a reality.
Ian Carnelli, Programme Manager at the European Space Agency (ESA) discusses the current research and the Asteroid Impact Mission. Asteroid deflection in regard to planetary defense is, as you’d imagine, a complex area of study; however, it is crucial research considering the fact that an asteroid’s impact on Earth could be up to a thousand times the Hiroshima bomb. ESA’s manager provides a detailed overview of the study of asteroid impact that takes into account speed and asteroid composition. And we’ll learn the importance of an inch, as Ian Carnelli explains how a small push of an asteroid that deviates its velocity as little as a quarter of an inch per second can change its orbit in a significant way.
Listen in as Mr. Carnelli expounds upon the reasons why collecting real space data; impacting asteroid moons; along with studying craters, their shape, depth and size is important to calibrate models to simulate impacts. And he’ll discuss the Rosetta mission and its contact with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and how it supplied important data to further research into the flight of a spacecraft near low-gravity environments.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies
0:08.0	Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these
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0:19.6	Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. My guest today is Ian Carnelli.
0:31.0	He's with the European Space Agency.
0:34.2	Ian, how you doing?
0:35.4	Great, how are you doing, Richard?
0:37.0	Yeah, it was really cool to talk to you guys. I appreciate you coming very much.
0:40.3	I'm very happy here today.
0:42.3	Yeah, my notes that said we were going to be talking about the asteroid
0:46.2	impact mission 2.0 and Hera.
0:48.5	So I wanted you to just give a brief overview of what the, you know, that mission's about and what it involves.
0:54.0	Yes, the mission is a very interesting endeavor we've been working on with
1:00.5	NASA since a few years. It actually entails two spacecraft. The whole point is to rehearse
1:06.8	an astral deflection technique and make sure we understand that it works before we need to apply to a real case if needed.
1:17.0	So we want to impact an asteroid and to be precise the moon of an asteroid and move it a little bit and then
1:26.4	measure how much we manage to move it and all of the properties of this moon so we can we can validate our models and and get this
1:35.7	technique nailed down. Yeah I don't know if people appreciate the energies
1:40.4	involves in asteroids so this would be in this circumstance in an asteroid. So this would be in the circumstance
1:44.6	that an asteroid is headed forward towards Earth
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