12.04.2025 Cosmic threats today represent a serious challenge for humanity and Russia plays a key role in their monitoring and counteracting it, told in an interview with RT the deputy chairman of the dissertation council, professor of the department of nanoelectronics of the MIREA RTU MIREA Aleksey Yurasov. Chettyimages.ru. Asteroids or comets are a global danger to the Earth. “Another hypothetical danger is the expansion of the sun, but this event threatens civilization only after billions of years. But a clash with a large asteroid can occur at any moment, and this is a very real threat to humanity. According to scientists, it was from the clash of the Earth with an asteroid with a size of 10-15 km and dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago, ”the specialist warned. He explained that the Russian cosmic threat monitoring system includes about 300 satellites of socio-economic, scientific and dual-purpose, some of which are detected by potentially dangerous objects. problems of their timely detection. By cosmic standards, asteroids are extremely small objects (their size varies from 30 m to 900 km). In addition, they do not emit their own light, but only reflect sunny. A number of potentially dangerous asteroids were discovered by accident by amateur astronomers. The situation is complicated by their speed – up to several tens of kilometers per second – and difficult to predictable trajectories, which makes the problem of detecting dangerous space objects an important task of the entire international community, ”Yurasov added. Asteroid hazard, a serious amount of cosmic garbage was a serious problem, and the expert warned. Orbits are more than a million different objects and their number only increases. Of course, Russia is constantly monitoring orbital objects, and in the case of dangerous rapprochement, it is adjusting the trajectory of spacecraft. To reduce the risks of large objects, such as the Salute orbital station, boil from orbit and flooded in the ocean, ”the analyst noted. In his opinion, the method of combating the thermonuclear weapon from the Earth to deviate or destroy the dangerous object. Asteroid using a solar sail, installing an explosive device on an asteroid itself, painting an asteroid in white or black in order to create a force that rejects it is difficult to realize, as they require a reliable attachment to a prisoner, moving at a high speed at a fairly large distance from the ground, ”he said, therefore, an effective method of protecting the earth from the earth protection from Threatening asteroids consists in their early detection – preferably in the field of Mars orbit or even in the vicinity of Jupiter and Saturn, the specialist noted. The scientific director of the Moscow planetarium Faina Rublev in an interview with RT told whether the Russians will be able to observe the peak of the Lirida meteor stream on the night of April 22 to 23.
