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What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth?
在我們發現將撞擊地球的小行星後,會發生什麼?

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last
今年,人類首次啓動了防禦來襲太空岩石的預警系統,這絕不會是最後一次。

In January, at a US Space Force Base in the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs, an operator received an unusual email. It was an alert — but not one triggered by the military’s network of space-based sensors. Nor had it originated from the Space Force’s array of early-warning radar systems. Instead, the email appeared to have been forwarded to US Space Command by a tiny UN outfit in Vienna called the Office for Outer Space Affairs. The subject line read “Potential Asteroid Impact Notification”.

今年1月,在落磯山脈(Rocky Mountains)、靠近科羅拉多斯普林斯(Colorado Springs)的美國太空軍(US Space Force)基地,一名操作員收到了一封不同尋常的電子郵件。這是一條警報,但並非由軍方的太空傳感器網路觸發,也不是來自太空軍的預警雷達系統。相反,這封郵件似乎是由聯合國維也納的外層空間事務辦公室這個小機構轉發給美國太空司令部(US Space Command)的。郵件主題爲「潛在小行星撞擊通知」。

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