How Bad Could it Be?

Image: courtesy Amy Mainzer, Barringer Public Lecture presentation

Professor Amy Mainzer presented “Earth-Approaching Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk” at the Fouler Museum at UCLA comparing past earth impacts with the size and density of the meteorites that caused them to determine which meteors would be harmful to earth.

Professor Mainzer is at University of Arizona and is principal investigator to NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor, and she was the science advisor to the film “Dont Look Up.”