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At the presentation, alongside former NASA astronauts Dr. Tom Jones and Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, The higher frequency of these types of events is interpreted as meaning that "blind luck" has mainly prevented a catastrophic impact over an inhabited area that could kill millions, a point made near the video's end.

Foundation name

The B612 Foundation is named in tribute to the eponymous home asteroid of the hero of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's best-selling philosophical fable of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince).

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Further reading

  • Lewis, John S. Comet And Asteroid Impact Hazards On A Populated Earth: Computer Modeling, Volume 1, Academic Press, 2000, ,
  • Powell, Corey S. "How to Deflect a Killer Asteroid: Researchers Come Up With Contingency Plans That Could Help Our Planet Dodge A Cosmic Bullet", Discover, September 18, 2013, pages 58–60 (subscription).
  • Schweickart, Lu, Hut and Chapman. "The Asteroid Tugboat: To Prevent An Asteroid From Hitting Earth, A Space Tug Equipped With Plasma Engines Could Give It A Push", October 13, 2003, Scientific American
  • Steel, Duncan. Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth, Wiley & Sons, 1995, [1997], , .
  • B612 Foundation: early website homepage (archived)
  • B612 Foundation: Sentinel Mission Factsheet (February 2013, PDF)
  • Dr. Ed Lu at TEDxMarin: Changing the Course of the Solar System (video, 14:04)
  • NBC Nightly News: Early-Warning Telescope Could Detect Dangerous Asteroids, broadcast April 22, 2014 (video, 2:27)
  • Defending Earth from Asteroids with Neil deGrasse Tyson, public presentation and moderated panel discussion with members of the Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, October 25, 2013 (video, 58:03)
  • NEO Threat Detection and Warning: Plans for an International Asteroid Warning Network, Presentation to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) by Dr. Timothy Spahr, Director, Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, February 18, 2013 (PDF)
  • Dr. Ed Lu Congressional Testimony, Washington, D.C., March 20, 2013, United States Senate Sub-Committee on Science and Space: "Assessing the Risks, Impacts and Solutions for Space Threats" (video, 23:49)
  • (DVD, video, 53:24). Also viewable (within some countries) as
  • Rusty's Talk: Dinosaur Syndrome Avoidance Project - How Gozit?, a July 17, 2014, presentation before an audience at NASA's Ames Research Center's Director's Colloquium, addressing the status of the three essential elements to avoiding catastrophic asteroid impacts (video, 55:34)