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This is CBSI on the world.

Behind the Black.

Bob Zimmerman is here 15 years of covering commercial space,

the success of SpaceX and the others chasing SpaceX. However, we turn to the discovery part because Bob also attends to astronomy, cosmology, the chemistry of space, and also surprises, which is what you would have to say, a planet

killer headed inbound in the next 20 years would be a surprise. We're talking about asteroids,

of course, and Bob assures me that planetary defense has some very good tools at hand right

now to discover, because knowledge is power, to discover

an asteroid, I promise you anything the size of a kilometer, would it be a very bad day on

planet Earth, I promise. So we're looking at planetary defense, and I learned that from the

Financial Times. A lot of people are looking at it after an incident that happened in

2024. During the Christmas holidays, suddenly there was a message going out. We're under

planetary, we're under asteroid attack. There was an asteroid that we now know as 2024 YR4.

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