TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter– part of a group of scientists working to find and catalog our earliest and most numerous cosmic next-door neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this brief, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have actually shaped our planet, and how discovering them at the right time could suggest nothing less than conserving life in the world.
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