Asteroid impacts can cause a wide range of damage through multiple potential hazards, from localized blast waves or thermal radiation, to tsunami inundation, to global climatic effects. The level of risk posed by these hazards depends not only upon their extent and severity, but also upon the likelihood of the various damage ranges. Some consequences may be more moderate but very likely, while others may be unlikely but catastrophic. Evaluating the risk from these hazards involves substantial uncertainties across all aspects of the problem, including the properties of the asteroid itself, the specifics of its entry, and the complex high-energy damage physics involved. NASA’s Asteroid Threat Assessment Project performs Probabilistic Asteroid Impact Risk (PAIR) assessments that use fast-running entry and hazard models to evaluate millions of impact cases representing the distributions of these many uncertain parameters. This paper presents current probabilistic asteroid impact risk assessment modeling tools and approaches used for evaluating specific asteroid impact threat cases. We give an overview of the current PAIR model used to support impact threat scenarios and discuss some of the key applications of these assessment in supporting response decisions and planetary defense preparedness. We then present the results and key findings from the recent 2023 PDC hypothetical impact exercise as an example of the primary types of risk results and metrics being developed to inform and support those mitigation and response decisions.


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    Titel :

    Risk Assessment for Asteroid Impact Threat Scenarios


    Beteiligte:
    Lorien Wheeler (Autor:in) / Jessie Dotson (Autor:in) / Michael Aftosmis (Autor:in) / Ashley Coates (Autor:in) / Grégoire Chomette (Autor:in) / Donovan Mathias (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-12-28




    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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