Sound Insurance Investment

First published: November 2006

The Planetary Society is making a forward–looking bid to prevent humanity suffering the same fate as the dinosaurs by offering a US$50,000 prize for a mission plan to rendezvous with and “tag” a near-Earth asteroid. The competition rules designate the asteroid Apophis, which might collide with Earth in 2036, as the target, but the schemes devised could be used on any threatening asteroid.