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Scientists and Astronomers have long worried about the potential devastation that an impact from space could cause, but recently Engineers have been designing realistic missions to stop these natural disasters.

In this documentary, International Experts give their opinions on how to plan, pay for, build and safely execute a mission to stop an Asteroid or Comet.

The complete documentary playlist is here –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68yuWYNztM&feature=PlayList&p=DC5F91F6EAD53191&index=0&playnext=1

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All the views expressed by the interviewees are their own opinions and not necessarily that of their organisations.

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Directed by Andrew Bacon
Edited by Gavin Childs
Narrated by Ryan Anderson

Interviews conducted by Andrew Bacon and Tejal Thakore at 2009 Planetary Defence Conference

Animations by
Shiblee Imtiaz Hasan
and Jeffrey Rivera

Korean Translation by
Yeongju Kim

Music by DoKashiteru
http://ccmixter.org/people/DoKashiteru

All original content published under the Creative Commons 3.0 Share-Alike License

Content that must not be adapted or republished without permission from the copyright holder:
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Spaceworks Engineering Ltd Images

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FURTHER INFORMATION

SGAC Projects on Near Earth Objects
http://www.spacegeneration.org/node/1138

B612 Foundation
http://www.b612foundation.org

Secure World Foundation
http://www.secureworldfoundation.org

The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/near_earth_objects/

NASA/JPL Near Earth Object Program
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov

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This video is the second in a series on Planetary Ascension and follows “Planetary Ascension – The Birth of the Sacred” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94a1J5UyTMI

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I always wanted to see a one-by-one comparison of the sizes of the planets, so I put the numbers into my 3d program. These are all correct proportions (of size, not distance).

Tamen, the final planet, was a world we created when we were children. Obsessed with size, we said it was 1,000 times larger than Earth’s sun (this was actually only 100 times larger, because 1000 made the sun so small you couldn’t really see it). We later learned that such a planet would have to much gravity that not only would no living thing survive, but you may get a nice little black hole started right there in the planet!

Wow… and I just realized that had the sun have been sitting where it is in this video, it’d be sucked into the planet instantly.

*Music Appropriately taken from season 1&2 of the BBC’s Red Dwarf.

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4th February 2010- http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100204/tsc-blushing-pluto-dwarf-planet-takes-on-e123fef.html

Pluto, the dwarf planet on the outer edge of our solar system, has a dramatically ruddier hue than it did just a few years ago, NASA scientists said Thursday, after examining photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

They said the distant orb appears mottled and molasses-colored in recent pictures, with a markedly redder tone that most likely is the result of surface ice melting on Pluto’s sunlit pole and then refreezing on the other pole.

The remarkable color shift, which apparently took place between 2000 and 2002, confirms that Pluto is a dynamic world undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes and not simply a ball of ice and rock, according to scientists at the US space agency.

They said they will compare Hubble pictures taken in 1994 with some from 2002 and 2003, as they search for more signs of seasonal change, including evidence that Pluto’s northern polar region has gotten brighter, while the southern hemisphere has darkened.

“The Hubble observations are the key to… showing how it all makes sense by providing a context based on weather and seasonal changes, which opens other new lines of investigation,” said the leader of the study, principal investigator Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in the western US city of Boulder, Colorado.

Pluto — declassified as a full-fledged planet in August 2006 — has a 248-year orbit and an axial tilt which, unlike Earth, alone drives the seasons. The icy orb’s seasons are asymmetrical because of its elliptical orbit.

Spring transitions to polar summer quickly in the northern hemisphere, because Pluto is moving faster along its orbit when it is closer to the sun, NASA said.

Scientists are hoping to collect additional riveting snapshots of Pluto when NASA’s next space probe, dubbed New Horizons, flies by the dwarf planet in 2015.

Hubble underwent repair during a space shuttle mission last year that left it with a new camera and spectrograph, as well as spruced up scientific instruments.

The repair job marked the end of NASA’s human missions to the beloved Hubble. Launched in 1990, the telescope was repaired and upgraded in 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2008.

Last year’s final upgrade extended the life of Hubble another five years.

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In this spell-binding series, Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on Earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the Solar System.

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