{"id":74439,"date":"2019-05-14T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=74439"},"modified":"2019-05-14T07:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:09:05","slug":"asteroid-impact-mock-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/asteroid-impact-mock-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Impact Mock Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<strong>Question: Which space agency is set to conduct Asteroid Impact Mock Drill along with its international partners?<\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tISRO\n<br>(b)\tNASA\n<br>(c)\tCNSA\n<br>(d)\tNone of the above\n<strong><br>Answer: (b)\n<br>Related facts:<\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n<ul><li>US Space agency NASA, along with its international partners, is set to\nconduct a mock exercise that will play out a realistic &#8212; but fictional &#8212;\nscenario for an asteroid on an impact trajectory with Earth.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The exercise will\nhelp the planetary defense community understand the important aspects of a\npossible disaster and identify issues for accomplishing a successful response.<\/li>\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>The real work of\npreparing for the possibility of an impact of near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as\nasteroids or comets goes on mostly out of the public eye. <\/li><li>In the spirit of\nbetter communication, at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, NASA&#8217;s\nPlanetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), and space science institutions,\nalong with international partners, will participate in a tabletop exercise.\nThis exercise will cover five days of the conference.<\/li><li>Attendees at the\nconference will play out a fictional NEO impact scenario developed by the NASA\nJet Propulsion Laboratory&#8217;s Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS).<\/li><li>Exercise leaders will\nbrief participants on the status of the scenario at the end of each day and\nsoliciting response ideas and feedback, based on the latest fictional data.<\/li><li>NASA\nhas participated in six NEO impact exercises so far &#8211;&nbsp;three at Planetary\nDefense Conferences (2013, 2015, and 2017) and three jointly with the Federal\nEmergency Management Agency (FEMA).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-to-conduct-asteroid-impact-mock-drill-5696827\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-to-conduct-asteroid-impact-mock-drill-5696827\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/sci-tech\/nasa-conduct-aseroid-impact-mock-drill\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/sci-tech\/nasa-conduct-aseroid-impact-mock-drill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which space agency is set to conduct Asteroid Impact Mock Drill along with its international partners? (a) ISRO (b) NASA (c) CNSA (d) None of the above Answer: (b) Related facts: US Space agency NASA, along with its international partners, is set to conduct a mock exercise that will play out a realistic &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-74439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}