It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a focused effort underway to discover and catalog these objects. I am lucky enough to be part of this effort. I'm part of a team of scientists that use NASA's NEOWISE telescope.
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One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That meaCarrie Nugent:
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids.Carrie Nugent:
Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our liveCarrie Nugent:
The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a teleCarrie Nugent:
There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earCarrie Nugent:
The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have tCarrie Nugent:
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, thCarrie Nugent:
I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlCarrie Nugent:
People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary oCarrie Nugent:
I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.