Carrie Nugent
Asteroid Scientist & Planetary Defender | Asteroids, Climate Change, and the Future of Life
About
Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter and planetary defense expert. As a researcher at the California Institute of Technology, she studies the detection, characterization, and risk assessment of near-Earth asteroids.
Nugent has been featured in National Geographic and The New York Times for her work mapping asteroid orbits and determining which poses a threat to Earth. Her TED talks on the science of asteroids and climate change have reached millions, empowering audiences to understand the existential risks facing our planet and how we can take action.
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Adventures of an asteroid hunter
TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have shaped our planet, and how finding them at the right time could mean nothing less than saving life on Earth.
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