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It's July 9, 2019, and I have one question for you.

How can you prepare for an asteroid you don't know about?

Let's start with the good news.

According to the Wall Street Journal, scientists have not identified a single asteroid that

will collide with our planet within the next century.

Now the bad news,

hundreds of thousands of near-Earth asteroids have not been identified. As an example of this

problem, a relatively small, 60-foot-wide asteroid exploded in the atmosphere near a city

in Russia six years ago, creating a blast wave that injured more than a thousand people. No one had seen

it coming. Assuming scientists could spot an asteroid coming our way, they are not sure they

could deflect it. NASA intends to launch a test in two years to try deflecting a non-threatening

asteroid called Didamus, but we are not close to even a modest planetary

defense capability today.

The unpredictability of life is a fact of life highlighted in the news every day.

For instance, Los Angeles Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy was taken off the field on a stretcher

Sunday night after a collision with a Houston Astros player at home plate.

He was diagnosed yesterday with a concussion and a broken nose.

The one-year-old daughter of an Indiana police officer died Sunday night after falling from a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico.

She was being held by her grandfather when she slipped out of his arms and plunged 11 floors to the concrete docked in Puerto Rico. She was being held by her grandfather when she slipped out of his arms

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