Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Asteroid Will Strike Earth Sooner Than We Expected!


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An Asteroid Will Strike Earth Sooner Than We

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.


NASA is watching an asteroid that could collide with Earth in the next 23 years, as new research into its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe has been released.

The asteroid, known as 2023 DW—which has a 50-meter (164 foot) diameter — was detected by the European Space Agency on February 26. It has been ranked as number one on its Risk List—meaning it has the potential to collide with Earth.




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