Robert Jedicke - IfA Robert Jedicke

KILLER ASTEROIDS

IMPACT IMPACT

Spielberg vs. Jedicke DEEP IMPACT

Spielberg vs. Jedicke $10,000,000 SPIELBERG $100 JEDICKE DEEP IMPACT INCOMES

THE TRADITIONAL SOLAR SYSTEM

R ELATIVE P LANET S IZES

Sun 11 Mercury 20 Venus 28 Earth 48 Mars R ELATIVE P LANET D ISTANCES 28 Moon

Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars 150 Jupiter 270 Saturn 540 Uranus 840 Neptune 1100 Pluto R ELATIVE P LANET D ISTANCES

A STEROIDS

C OMETS

M ETEORS

ASTEROIDS COMETS S MALL B ODIES METEORS

A STEROIDS N EAR E ARTH O BJECTS

Ida

Oahu

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E ARTH

I MPACT R ATES

Moon

Target Earth R ISK C ALCULATIONS # of people in U.S. who die in hurricanes per year # of people in U.S ,000,000 1 in a 10,000,000 per year 100 years1 in 100,000 in your lifetime

Target Earth R ISK C ALCULATIONS # of people who die in asteroid impacts per year # of people ??? 7,000,000,000 ?

I MPACT R ATES...

R ISK S IMULATIONS

Target Earth R ISK O F Y OU D YING… 1 IN 70,000

Target Earth R ISK O F M AJOR I MPACT T HIS C ENTURY… 1 IN 1,000

OFFICE IMPACTS

K NOWN A STEROID I MPACT L OCATIONS

Honolulu Advertiser, 2002 October 10

CHICXULUB CRATER FORMATION Mauna Loa

TUNGUSKA From

Just Blasted TUNGUSKA vs OAHU Burnt & Blasted

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PS & Collaborators

Hawaiian Island Chain

PS Org Chart PS Organization Chart

Pan-STARRS

PS1

G IZMOWATCH 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering #1 The Large Hadron Collider

* Reference: The top 5 are as follows: 1. The Large Hadron Collider; 2. The International Space Station; 3. Three Gorges Dam; 4. Petronas Twin Towers; 5. The Chandra space-based X-ray telescope The 1.4 billion pixel Pan-STARRS camera is one of the 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering* ! G IZMOWATCH 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering #2 The International Space Station

* Reference: The top 5 are as follows: 1. The Large Hadron Collider; 2. The International Space Station; 3. Three Gorges Dam; 4. Petronas Twin Towers; 5. The Chandra space-based X-ray telescope The 1.4 billion pixel Pan-STARRS camera is one of the 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering* ! G IZMOWATCH 20 Marvels of Modern Engineering #3 The Three Gorges Dam

PS1 #18 The PS1 Camera

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A STEROID I MAGING 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am

A STEROID S UPER- P OSITIONING

A STEROID B LINKING

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G RAVITATIONAL D EFLECTION

T ARGET E ARTH

What can you do about it?

TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION CONCERNED UH ALUMNI ONE IMPACT DEAD END HONOLULU, HI, One Million Concerned UH AlumniSave the Earth 22 May 2009 Robert Jedicke 1,000,000

DEEP IMPACT vs. NEOs DEEP IMPACT REVENUE + $340,000,000 $5,000,000

Four years salary… $60,000,000 University of Hawai’i Pan-STARRS ROBERT JEDICKE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 12/99 VALID THRU Four years salary for 40 scientists and engineers and building two new observatories…

Ten years operations… $20,000,000 Ten years operations funding… University of Hawai’i Pan-STARRS ROBERT JEDICKE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 12/99 VALID THRU

Annual operations…. $150,000,000/year 500 jobs University of Hawai’i Pan-STARRS ROBERT JEDICKE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 12/99 VALID THRU Mauna Kea operations…

Increased tourism…. $10,000,000/year University of Hawai’i Pan-STARRS ROBERT JEDICKE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 12/99 VALID THRU Increased and continued tourism…

University of Hawai’i Pan-STARRS ROBERT JEDICKE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 12/99 VALID THRU Saving the Earth from destruction… Priceless