With the recent return of NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Asteroid Bennu - Earth's close encounters with asteroids have been on many peoples' minds equally fascinating and alarming us. But what if we could prevent a potential catastrophe? Let's dive in an explore the groundbreaking methods NASA is researching and implementing to divert these celestial threats. 0:00 The Asteroids That Might Kill Earth 0:34 The Chelyabinsk Asteroid in Russia 1:22 The Destructive Power of Asteroids 2:04 The Tunguska Impact Event 2:49 The Chicxulub Impactor 4:15 The Impossible Task of Spotting Asteroids 5:58 How NASA is Preparing to Deflect Bennu 7:42 Delivering an Spaceship to an Asteroid 8:44 Can You Use a Nuke to Stop an Asteroid? 10:15 Laser Ablation Approaches 11:32 Kinetic Impactors and NASA's DART Mission 13:04 Mass Drivers for Diverting Asteroids 14:46 Yarkovsky Steering of Asteroids 15:40 OSIRIS-REx - Our First Line of Defence #nasa #asteroid #bennu Merch! I think Scientists are Rockstars so I made t-shirts to celebrate it Einstein Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/rockstar-scientist-tee-einstein Curie Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/rockstar-scientist-tee-curie Schrodinger Rockstar Tee: https://www.drbenmiles.com/merch/p/rockstar-scientist-schrodinger If you enjoy the channel and want even more physics, tech, and business content, I've just launched new Instagram and Threads pages. Follow on the links below Insta: https://www.instagram.com/drbenmiles Threads: https://threads.net/drbenmiles Newsletter https://drbenmiles.substack.com/ A few people have asked so I've added the info below. Some of these are affiliate links. If you make a purchase it doesn't cost you anything extra, but a percentage of the sale will help support this channel and my work to bringing entrepreneurship into science. My camera : https://amzn.to/3ed5Xac My lens: https://amzn.to/3xIAZyA My lav: https://amzn.to/2SeE20Y and https://amzn.to/3nK33wA My mic: https://amzn.to/3gUYYEv