Asteroids

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   Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 277277.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from asteroids and comets:^[1]

• Research the deflection of 1 km+ asteroids and comets, perhaps restricted to methods that couldn’t be weaponized such as those that don’t lead to accurate changes in trajectory.
• Bring short-period comets into the same risk framework as near-Earth asteroids.
• Improve our understanding of the risks from long-period comets.
• Improve our modeling of impact winter scenarios, especially for 1–10 km asteroids. Work with experts in climate modeling and nuclear winter modeling to see what modern models say.

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   Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 277

BibliographyFurther reading

Newberry, Toby (2021) How cost-effective are efforts to detect near-Earth-objects?, GPI technical report no. T1-2021, Global Priorities InstituteInstitute, University of Oxford.

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Bibliography

##Bibliography Newberry, Toby (2021) How cost-effective are efforts to detect near-Earth-objects?, Global Priorities Institute