[Interview+] What Would It Take to Catch Up With a Meteorite?
Earth is hit by meteorites every day. Some are harmless, some could be dangerous. But now we have the most advanced tool to discover and predict them, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Will it be enough to predict a hit with enough precision to catch up a meteorite mid-flight? Finding out in this interview.
👉 NOIRLab Interview https://youtu.be/VKrpJODdEM0
🟣 Guest: Ian Chow https://ia-chow.github.io/
📜 Predictions of Imminent Earth Impactors Discovered by LSST https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05587
00:00 Intro
01:54 Working with Vera Rubin
04:33 Early detections
14:12 How can we improve
18:20 Big threats
22:00 New method to identify asteroids
27:43 Amateur observations
31:52 Current obsessions
33:08 Final thoughts
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Earth is hit by meteorites every day. Some are harmless, some could be dangerous. But now we have the most advanced tool to discover and predict them, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Will it be enough to predict a hit with enough precision to catch up a meteorite mid-flight? Finding out in this interview.
👉 NOIRLab Interview https://youtu.be/VKrpJODdEM0
🟣 Guest: Ian Chow https://ia-chow.github.io/
📜 Predictions of Imminent Earth Impactors Discovered by LSST https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05587
00:00 Intro
01:54 Working with Vera Rubin
04:33 Early detections
14:12 How can we improve
18:20 Big threats
22:00 New method to identify asteroids
27:43 Amateur observations
31:52 Current obsessions
33:08 Final thoughts
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