Former NASA astronauts said this week that we are relying on "blind luck" when it comes to asteroids avoiding our planet.
Earth gets hit three to ten times more by "large-scale" asteroids than what is supposedly being declared by authorities, according to Phys.org.
As part of the Earth Day celebration, former NASA astronauts Ed Lu, Bill Anders, and Tom Jones will present facts supporting their claim in Seattle at 11:30 a.m. today, (April 22).
Lu is CEO of the B612 Foundation, which was formed to find and track asteroids "decades" before they can potentially crash into Earth. Once discovered and tracked, the foundation's goal is to deflect them from reaching Earth.
In order to achieve this, they're attempting to raise money to build the Sentinel Infrared Space telescope.
"This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. It shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare -- but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought," reads a press release issued by the foundation.
The event will be held at Seattle's museum of Flight. It is being called "Saving the Earth by Keeping Big Asteroids Away."
Visualizations will be shown online on the B612 Foundation website today at 6:00 p.m. PDT.
The B612 foundation has declared 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, most of which caused by asteroid impacts, according to the foundation's website.
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