I'm John Batchezer with three men from MIT who are interested in space rocks,

asteroids who become meteorites sometimes when they're small enough.

We're looking for the one with, to whom it may concern, that would hit us in such a fashion

that it would be discomforting to everybody underneath it,

but also damaging to the earth.

You all know the story of the dinosaurs who looked up one day, and that was the end of the dinosaur,

as we understand it.

However, Artem, Berdenoff, Julian DeWitt, and Richard Binzal are here to help me understand what they've discovered.

Artem, you co-led the study in Nature magazine, using the James Webb Space Telescope to find small asteroids in the belts.

How did you do it, Artem? Good evening to you.

Good evening. Thanks for having me and for your interest.

So it's a little bit, even a funny story, because we started searching for asteroids at our group at MIT as a site project because we have

a lot of data that's focused on search for terrestrial planets outside our solar system.

But from time to time we see an object that passing in front of the stars that we study, we see that in the images, and those are the big rocks in our solar system.

And we decided to do a data mining and find them all in the data we already have.

And then we started applying this to the data from Hubble Space Telescope.

And of course, we thought about trying to do the same with the James Webb. And fortunately, James Webb, a space telescope, has been observing a star called Tropis I star, which harbors seven terrestrial planets and where some of them might be in, where some of them are in the habitable zone.

So the web telescope was observing that star to investigate those exoplanets and Julien is involved in those programs.

And we noticed

we noticed Astros

that we're crossing the field of Eurojames web

and we decided why don't we

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