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One of the bullet points in the Planetary Defense Timeline section claims that (as of 2007) ALL objects of concern (> 140 m) will be identified and monitored (whatever that means) by 2020 C.E. This claim is blatant nonsense; we can not identify "all" of them because the number of them is constantly increasing ( or 'constantly changing' if you remove objects which are no longer part of that category). I see this article has "benefited" from a flame war, so I'll leave my other comments aside - other than to remark that a lot of it is quite opinionated and appears to rely not only on the editors' opinions, but puts forward statements in editorial and opinion and advocacy writings as if they are established fact. We have a better method of determining what is fact and what is opinion (and what is false): its' called peer review.67.140.179.46 (talk) 16:03, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Could mention HAMMER

[1], kinetic and nuclear options. - Rod57 (talk) 01:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Asteroid impact prediction

The Asteroid impact prediction article has just moved from Draft to the main article space. Reviewers suggested that I should add some of the text from the Asteroid impact prediction article to this one (I have linked the Asteroid impact prediction article to this one already). Looking at the avoidance article it seems that it already contains some text on impact prediction, but is not currently identified as such. I.e. the avoidance article does not currently differentiate between the two separate stages of 1. predicting an impact, followed by 2. taking action to prevent the impact from happening.

I can see from comments in the avoidance article that there are some issues with the existing prediction text in that it is now quite out of date. Conveniently the new prediction article is lacking information on the history of impact prediction and could do with some of the text currently in the avoidance article. Can I suggest that we separate out the prediction text in the avoidance article to make it clear it is about prediction (adding a main article link), and then the bulk of the avoidance article can focus on the actual avoidance, which is a separate topic? Correspondingly an "Aftermath" section can be added to the prediction article detailing the options in the event of a predicted impact, which depending on the severity will include avoidance. Rafflesgluft (talk) 14:51, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a couple of months, and no objections or comments during that time, so I soon plan to start 1. copying the asteroid impact prediction text into the Asteroid impact prediction article, and then 2. removing it from this article, with an ultimate aim to leave this article focused on impact avoidance and the prediction article on prediction. Any last minute comments or objections, please shout up, otherwise I will go ahead under the assumption any interested parties are in agreement. Thanks Rafflesgluft (talk) 11:51, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's now three months so I have begun work:

copied Impact probability calculation pattern Rafflesgluft (talk) 17:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]