The risk of a pandemic of deadly was known. Obviously, we did not anticipate. It is another risk distant but certain : the crash of an asteroid on the Earth. Patrick Michel, an astrophysicist at the Observatoire de la Côte d'azur, director of research at the CNRS and expert world-recognized of these more or less small bodies of the solar system, is fighting for humanity is preparing for this eventuality. Ironically, it is in December 2019 as the space mission to divert asteroid, which he defended for more than fifteen years, has finally received the green light from the Agency sp...

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