Fraction of the period's discoveries

(a) Grain impact analyser and dust accumulator (GIADA).

Although the probability of collision of NEOs with the Earth is very low, they represent a potential threat to the planet.

They met to discuss the implications of a comet asteroid impact and its effect on human society.

In the course of the work, a software package has been developed to simulate a possible impact hazard and to determine an optimal deflection strategy.

The caretaker Government later established committees to investigate both the helicopter crash and the violence.

Only Ranger 4 reached the Moon in an uncontrolled crash impact on the far side of the Moon.

(a) To identify advantages and define a solid rationale for the utilization of space missions to assess the NEO impact hazard.

In Europe, a large number of activities in the field of NEO impact risk assessment has been initiated by academics, but few by institutions.

The grounding of the tanker Jessica , delivering bunker fuel and diesel for tourist boats and the Ecuadorian Navy, brought world attention to the marine threats from increased human activities on the Islands.

Impacts of very large, multi kilometre NEOs have in the past been overwhelmingly catastrophic, but are, fortunately, extremely rare.

Space borne instruments are the best and often the only means of obtaining such data, which are essential for the assessment of the consequences of an impact and the countermeasures that could be taken to prevent it.

(c) To revise and update the scientific priorities for NEO hazard assessment mission concepts entirely in terms of their value in reducing the risk of impact by NEOs and not by the value of the results to pure science

(c) Of the six missions reviewed, NEOMAP recommended that ESA give the highest priority to the Don Quijote concept as the basis for its participation in NEO impact risk assessment and reduction.

The implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was put to a severe test when the First Vice President, John Garang, died on 30 July in a helicopter crash near New Cush, southern Sudan.

And on the last day with this female where I thought I had pushed her too far, I got nervous because she came up to me, she rolled over on her back, and she did this deep, guttural jackhammer sound, this gokgokgokgok.

The consequences of NEO impacts can be very severe, but a great deal can be done to prevent some of the impacts entirely and to reduce significantly the damage caused by others, provided timely actions are taken.

World Trade Center controlled demolition theories contend that the collapse of the World Trade Center was not solely caused by the airliner crash damage that occurred as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the resulting fire damage, but by explosives installed in the buildings in advance.

But if you live in a vacuum, if you live on the surface of one of these objects, say, in the Kuiper Belt, this an object like Pluto, or one of the smaller objects in the neighborhood of Pluto, and you happened if you're living on the surface there, and you get knocked off the surface by a collision, then it doesn't change anything all that much.