As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.
Mark Boslough received his Ph.D. (Caltech, 1983) in applied physics, with studies in geophysics. He joined Sandia National Laboratories, where he was an experimental and computational physicist. He departed Sandia in 2017 and joined Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research is focused on computational modeling of airbursts, their physical effects, and their contribution to the risk from asteroids and comets. He participated in documentary field expeditions to airburst sites, including the Libyan Desert of Egypt, Tunguska, and Chelyabinsk. He served on the asteroid mitigation panel for the National Research Council and coauthored the report “Defending Planet Earth” delivered to Congress.
Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.