Adam Hibberd
An asteroid was discovered in December 2024 which for a while had the world on tenter hooks.
Its predicted path brought it in close proximity to the Earth in December 2032, with a chance of collision which steadily rose to around 3% over the course of several weeks.
Now all the pressure valves have released and there is huge relief since further observations have rendered the likelihood of it impacting with Earth as just about negligible, though the likelihood of collision with the Moon is quite high (~4%), and a collision could have major repercussions.
Is it possible to send a mission to this object? How feasible is it for that matter? What might a mission achieve, and why send one in the first place?
All these questions and more are answered in the presentation being conducted virtually by Marshall Eubanks and me and organised through the BIS (WM) branch.
Go to our preprint on the subject here.
Astrodynamicist and software research engineer for i4is, Adam Hibberd, will explain how his software Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software (OITS) can be utilised to solve all the myriad problems associated with designing a mission to this potentially hazardous object (PHO).
The link to read more and register for the presentation is here.
