NASA established an Earth defense unit against the risk of collisions with meteors

NASA has officially established a planetary cooperation (PDCO) division with the task of detecting meteorites capable of endangering the Earth. At the same time, the US government will also spend $ 50 million for NASA in 2016 to use the NEO telescope for PDCO to use for the above purpose.

NASA has also developed coping scenarios when threatening disasters occur.

Now scientists have found more than 90% of meteorites near Earth with a size larger than 1.22km and now, the PDCO will continue to search for the rest, while expanding the meteorite there size of 137 meters or more.

In addition to continually using NEO telescopes to track meteorites, NASA is also responsible for releasing warnings to other agencies to coordinate coping when there are risks to the safety of the Left. Land.

Although until now, no threat has been announced, but NASA has also developed coping scenarios when there is a threat.

One of the methods is that the meteorite mission is expected to be officially started in 2020 and, as described, "uses the mass of another object to pull the meteorite away from its original trajectory. " to avoid the risk of crashing into the Earth. And that is one of many solutions that NASA scientists are studying to save the planet from the dangers of extinction from the universe.