This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel, continuing with three men from MIT, planetary scientists, a professor of planetary science,

Professor Richard Benzel, a professor of planetary science, Julian DeWitt, and a research fellow at MIT, Artem

Berdenoff, all of whom are with their colleagues, published a new article in Nature magazine,

submitted at the end of 2024, online at the end of 20244, here in a magazine in my hands.

JWST, that's the James Webb Space Telescope, the one that sees at the beginning of the

beginning of the beginning, and also picks up exoplanets for a study.

JWST, citing of decimeter main-built asteroids and view on meteorite sources. Deca meter means very

small. Richard, I come to you because of the Torino scale. It's a fascination. What is it that we're

looking for? And what do we do about it if we find it? Something not necessarily dinosaur-sized, but bad enough to cause a lot of damage on the planet.

What does that look like?

And how do we know?

Thank you, Richard.

Discovering an asteroid and figuring out where it's going to be in the future is a bit of a challenge.

It's like trying to figure out what seat a fly ball is going to land off a home run hitter's bat

right when you hear the crack of the bat.

So initially we just see a tiny fraction of that orbit and we don't know where it's going to,

where that asteroid is going to be in the future.

It's just you have to watch it for a long time.

So sometimes as we're watching it, we can't be sure one way or another if it's going to hit or miss the earth.

It can have a probability that gets transposed into this zero to 10 scale.

We call the Trino scale that was adopted internationally back in 1999.

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