Days Since Incident
I love this list of ever-increasing timelines. All that’s missing is the time since the Carrington Event, just to remind us what could happen when the next one hits.
Link tags: asteroids
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Eleanor Lutz - An Orbit Map of the Solar System
A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures – Center for Science and the Imagination
A collection of short stories and essays speculating on humanity’s future in the solar system. The digital versions are free to download.
Megatelescope releases its first image: Physics Today: Vol 69, No 12
A lovely piece of design fiction imagining a project where asteroids are shaped and polished into just the right configuration to form part of an enormous solar-system wide optical telescope.
Once they are deployed in space, a celestial spiderweb of crisscrossed laser beams can push around clouds of those microscopic optical sensors to desired locations.
B612 Foundation
Defending Earth against asteroids, just like the Spaceguard organisation described in Rendezvous With Rama.
Detect. Deflect. Defend.
SSI Sample Slides | Space Studies Institute
The dream of SSI is of a humanity free of the constraints of the Earth. In expanding outward into space, we can not only help to preserve our present biosphere, we can also seed other independent biospheres elsewhere, ensuring the continued survival of life despite any kind of planetary disaster.
Hello, want to kill some time?
This might just be the best bookmarklet ever created. Use it to turn any page into an asteroid-like game of destruction.
HTML 5 Asteroids | Doug McInnes
Asteroids in canvas. Works a treat. Now I want Battlezone.
LAZEROIDS!
Asteroids implemented using HTML5's canvas.
Free games -- Asteroid's Revenge
The worm turns. Play the part of an asteroid trying to crash into spaceships.