Don Yeomans唐·約曼斯 -The 2013 TIME 100
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Don Yeomans is one of the reasons we can all sleep a little better at night. For over a decade, Don and I have been hunting for incoming asteroids that come too close to Earth, with Don leading the NASA effort to find and track them, while I focus via the B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid home of the Little Prince — on how to deflect them if necessary.
Every night, telescopes make thousands of asteroid observations which go to Don’s premier team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where that data is converted into information about the trajectory of the rocks years or even decades into the future.
One day, without question, it will be Don and his team who issue a warning to the world that it’s time to launch a deflection campaign to prevent an incalculable disaster. We know how things worked out for the dinosaurs; it takes a levelheaded leader like Don to spare us their fate.
Schweickart, founder of the B612 Foundation, flew aboard the Apollo 9 mission
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由生鏽的施韋卡特2013年4月18日
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加州理工學院/ NASA / JPL
唐·約曼斯是的,我們都可以在晚上睡覺好一點的原因之一。十多年來,唐和我一直在追捕這太接近地球的小行星的傳入,與唐領先的美國航空航天局的努力尋找和跟踪他們,而我通過B612基金會的重點 - 命名為小王子的小行星家 - 如何在必要時轉移他們。
每天晚上,望遠鏡使成千上萬的小行星觀測哪去了唐首屈一指的團隊在噴氣推進實驗室,在那裡將數據轉換成信息有關的岩石幾年甚至幾十年到未來的軌跡。
有一天,毫無疑問,這將是唐和他的團隊誰發出警告世人,是時候推出一款偏向運動,以防止無法估量的災難。我們知道事情是如何計算出來的恐龍; 它需要一個頭腦清醒的領導者像唐饒我們自己的命運。
施韋卡特的B612基金會的創始人,立馬登上阿波羅9使命
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