[Interview+] What Would It Take to Catch Up With a Meteorite?

Earth is hit by meteorites every day. Some are harmless, some could be dangerous. But now we have the most advanced tool to discover and predict them, the Vera Rubin Observatory. Will it be enough to predict a hit with enough precision to catch up a meteorite mid-flight? Finding out in this interview.

👉 NOIRLab Interview https://youtu.be/VKrpJODdEM0

🟣 Guest: Ian Chow https://ia-chow.github.io/

📜 Predictions of Imminent Earth Impactors Discovered by LSST https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05587

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:54 Working with Vera Rubin

• 04:33 Early detections

• 14:12 How can we improve

• 18:20 Big threats

• 22:00 New method to identify asteroids

• 27:43 Amateur observations

• 31:52 Current obsessions

• 33:08 Final thoughts