NASA, FEMA Prep For Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Event With Emergency Simulation Exercises

Five new objects, on an average, are added each day to NASA’s database of over 15,000 near-Earth objects — comets and asteroids whose orbits bring them close to Earth. It’s only a matter of time before one of these objects makes a beeline for Earth, and when that happens, we would need a plan to ensure our survival — one that does not involve dropping Bruce Willis on the surface of the asteroid to blow it up.