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Asteroids

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Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Depending on their size, asteroids with the potential to collide with planet Earth could pose a global catastrophic risk or even an existential risk.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from asteroids and comets:[1]

Further reading

Newberry, Toby (2021) How cost-effective are efforts to detect near-Earth-objects?, GPI technical report no. T1-2021, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford.

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 277.

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