KILLER ASTEROIDSKILLER ASTEROIDS

IMPACT

IMPACT

IMPACT

Spielberg vs. JedickeDEEP IMPACT

Spielberg vs. Jedicke

$10,000,000

SPIELBERG

$100JEDICKE

DEEP IMPACT INCOMES

THE TRADITIONAL SOLAR SYSTEM

RELATIVE PLANET SIZES

Sun

11Mercury

20Venus

28Earth

48Mars

RELATIVE PLANET DISTANCES

28Moon

11 20

28

48

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

150Jupiter

270Saturn

540Uranus

840Neptune

1100Pluto

RELATIVE PLANET DISTANCES

ASTEROIDS

COMETS

METEORS

ASTEROIDS

COMETS

SMALL BODIES

SMALL BODIES

METEORS

ASTEROIDS

NEAR

EARTH

OBJECTS

Ida

Ida

Oahu

How we reduce the impact risk?

EARTH

IMPACT RATES

Moon

Target EarthRISK CALCULATIONS

# of people in U.S. who die in hurricanes per year

# of people in U.S.

30

300,000,0001 in a 10,000,000

per year

100 years 1 in 100,000in your lifetime

Target EarthRISK CALCULATIONS

# of people who die in asteroid impacts per year

# of people

???

7,000,000,000 ?

IMPACT RATES

.

.

.

RISK SIMULATIONS

Target EarthRISK OF YOU DYING…

1 IN 70,000

Target EarthRISK OF MAJOR IMPACT THIS CENTURY…

1 IN 1,000

OFFICE IMPACTS

KNOWN ASTEROID IMPACT LOCATIONS

KNOWN ASTEROID IMPACT LOCATIONS

Honolulu Advertiser, 2002 October 10

CHICXULUB CRATER FORMATION

Mauna Loa

TUNGUSKA

From http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/

Just Blasted

TUNGUSKA vs OAHU

Burnt & Blasted

How we reduce the impact risk?

PS & Collaborators

Hawaiian Island Chain

PS Org Chart

PS Organization Chart

Pan-STARRS

PS1

GIZMOWATCH20 Marvels of Modern Engineering

#1The Large Hadron Collider

The 1.4 billion pixel Pan-STARRS camera is one of the 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering* !

GIZMOWATCH20 Marvels of Modern Engineering

#2The International Space Station

The 1.4 billion pixel Pan-STARRS camera is one of the 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering* !

GIZMOWATCH20 Marvels of Modern Engineering

#3The Three Gorges Dam

PS1

#18The PS1 Camera

How we reduce the impact risk?

ASTEROID IMAGING

12:00am

12:30am

1:00am

ASTEROID SUPER-

POSITIONING

ASTEROID

BLINKING

How we reduce the impact risk?

GRAVITATIONAL DEFLECTION

TARGET EARTH

TARGET EARTH

TARGET EARTH

What can you do about it?

TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION

CONCERNED UH ALUMNIONE IMPACT DEAD ENDHONOLULU, HI, 96822-0000

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One Million ---------------------------------

Concerned UH AlumniSave the Earth

22 May 2009

Robert Jedicke 1,000,000

DEEP IMPACT vs. NEOsDEEP IMPACT REVENUE

+$340,000,000

$5,000,000

Four years salary…

$60,000,000

University of Hawai’i

Pan-STARRS

ROBERT JEDICKEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

12/99VALIDTHRU

4267 5346 7831 1342

Four years salary for 40 scientistsand engineers and building two new observatories…

Ten years operations…

$20,000,000

Ten years operations funding…

University of Hawai’i

Pan-STARRS

ROBERT JEDICKEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

12/99VALIDTHRU

4267 5346 7831 1342

Annual operations….

$150,000,000/year500 jobs

University of Hawai’i

Pan-STARRS

ROBERT JEDICKEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

12/99VALIDTHRU

4267 5346 7831 1342

Mauna Kea operations…

Increased tourism….

$10,000,000/year

University of Hawai’i

Pan-STARRS

ROBERT JEDICKEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

12/99VALIDTHRU

4267 5346 7831 1342

Increased and continued tourism…

University of Hawai’i

Pan-STARRS

ROBERT JEDICKEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

12/99VALIDTHRU

4267 5346 7831 1342

Saving the Earth from destruction…

Priceless