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"content": "\u003cp>The battle over Shasta Dam is escalating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, California’s attorney general and several fishing and conservation groups filed separate lawsuits to stop a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1937108/shasta-dam-project-sets-up-another-trump-california-showdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial project\u003c/a> to elevate the dam and expand the state’s largest reservoir, near Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is unlawful,” wrote Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement announcing the state’s lawsuit. “It would create significant environmental and cultural impacts for the communities and habitats surrounding the Shasta Dam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n\u003cp>But the plaintiffs’ primary leverage point might be the McCloud River, the most \u003ca href=\"https://activenorcal.com/fishing-the-mccloud-river-famous-fish-in-a-special-setting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legendary trout stream\u003c/a> in California, and protected under \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/california-wild-and-scenic-rivers-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s Wild & Scenic Rivers Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also one of several rivers feeding Shasta Lake, the shoreline of which would expand if the federal Bureau of Reclamation proceeds with its \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/mp/ncao/shasta-enlargement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan to add 18 feet\u003c/a> to the top of Shasta Dam. The Bureau estimates the expansion would add 630,000 acre-feet of water to the capacity of the reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companion suit to the state’s was filed by a coalition of Friends of the River, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Institute for Fisheries Resources, Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club and the Golden Gate Salmon Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Westlands Targeted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-california-trump-environmental-lawsuits-20190507-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">environmental lawsuits\u003c/a> filed by California since Donald Trump took office, this one doesn’t target the administration. Instead, both suits are aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westlands Water District\u003c/a>, a Fresno-based irrigation district and a major player in Central Valley water politics. Westlands wants the additional water that a bigger Shasta Lake might provide, and it’s willing to put up tens of millions in project funding to get it. But the state and other plaintiffs argue that the whole project is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been illegal for 30 years,” says Ron Stork, with the conservation group Friends of the River, in Sacramento. ” ‘It’ being raising Shasta Dam and Westlands cooperating with the federal goverment to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stork says state law prohibits any expansion of Shasta, because it would flood a stretch of the lower McCloud, disrupting the river’s natural flow. It would also inundate most remaining sacred sites of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.winnememwintu.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winnemem Wintu\u003c/a> tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some kind of sacred trusts that we’ve made as California citizens that we’re going to protect some of our rivers,” adds Stork, “and Westlands’ actions and Reclamation’s expected actions really can’t stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra agrees that as a state-sanctioned agency, Westlands is barred from any participation in the project, financial or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, Westlands issued a statement saying it’s merely exploring its options with Shasta and not violating any law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contrary to the allegations by the Attorney General, the District is not violating the law,” Westlands said. The district asserted it was “merely conducting environmental review” to determine whether it can move forward as a federal cost-sharing partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been widely anticipated that Westlands would provide critical funding for the expansion. The district has even bought up property surrounding Shasta Lake, presumably in anticipation of its enlargement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stork says no hearing date has been set for his group’s case, but the battle is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Reclamation falls under the U.S. Department of the Interior, now headed by David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for Westlands Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The law routinely results in projects that improve protections for public health and the environment,” said the letter signed by reps from the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, the League of Women Voters and others. “Californians should not be forced to make a false choice between affordable housing and a clean environment. We can—and must—have both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the urgency to build more housing, environmentalists say there’s nothing to justify anything but a rigorous review of commercial proposals—even ones as visually appealing as vineyards in the Napa Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have NIMBYs Really Hijacked CEQA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of CEQA trace back to 1970, when it was adopted amid a freeway boom and development of dams and levees that rerouted rivers to boost agriculture. CEQA, through which hundreds of proposed building projects are processed annually, requires public agencies to reduce or mitigate the environmental impacts of development wherever feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA has stopped very few housing projects in this state, but it sometimes slows them down,” said Alan Levine, director of the Coast Action Group and among those who signed that letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, attorney Jennifer Hernandez with the San Francisco law firm Holland & Knight labels CEQA “the tool of choice for preventing cities from approving high-density housing.” She said housing projects “are in fact the top target of CEQA lawsuits statewide,” with a quarter of lawsuits against CEQA-reviewed projects targeting housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, though, that may not be so many. An \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://rosefdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CEQA-in-the-21st-Century.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>\u003c/u> from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment found that, of more than 54,000 CEQA-reviewed projects from 2013 through 2015, just 0.7 percent faced litigation—an average of less than 100 proposed housing developments per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez contends that litigious NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) resisters have hijacked CEQA and are now using it for myopic, neighborhood gains such as views and urban skylines. She said that, by impeding infill residential development, CEQA aggravates the housing crisis, suburban sprawl, traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. 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CEQA’s champions contend that heavy-footprint projects like the Bremer vineyard and other earth-moving, tree-cutting endeavors slip too easily past the guard of CEQA—leading to overdrawn groundwater tables and disappearing forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politically potent building trades union signed \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hGQ57b_d-1A_TFE3Pir9VJ95n8TFxQ2L/view\">a January letter\u003c/a>\u003c/u> defending CEQA, although it’s \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-union-developer-housing-deal-20190128-story.html\">been negotiating\u003c/a>\u003c/u> on a housing plan that could include CEQA relaxations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of environmental advocacy and social justice groups signed a \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAzmVcVP1nB8Okav8Nmu-fnkeOQKFcNh/view\">letter\u003c/a>\u003c/u> this spring arguing that CEQA should be \u003cem>strengthened.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite constant attacks from special interests, CEQA is working. The law routinely results in projects that improve protections for public health and the environment,” said the letter signed by reps from the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, the League of Women Voters and others. “Californians should not be forced to make a false choice between affordable housing and a clean environment. We can—and must—have both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the urgency to build more housing, environmentalists say there’s nothing to justify anything but a rigorous review of commercial proposals—even ones as visually appealing as vineyards in the Napa Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have NIMBYs Really Hijacked CEQA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of CEQA trace back to 1970, when it was adopted amid a freeway boom and development of dams and levees that rerouted rivers to boost agriculture. CEQA, through which hundreds of proposed building projects are processed annually, requires public agencies to reduce or mitigate the environmental impacts of development wherever feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA has stopped very few housing projects in this state, but it sometimes slows them down,” said Alan Levine, director of the Coast Action Group and among those who signed that letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, attorney Jennifer Hernandez with the San Francisco law firm Holland & Knight labels CEQA “the tool of choice for preventing cities from approving high-density housing.” She said housing projects “are in fact the top target of CEQA lawsuits statewide,” with a quarter of lawsuits against CEQA-reviewed projects targeting housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the big picture, though, that may not be so many. An \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://rosefdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CEQA-in-the-21st-Century.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>\u003c/u> from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment found that, of more than 54,000 CEQA-reviewed projects from 2013 through 2015, just 0.7 percent faced litigation—an average of less than 100 proposed housing developments per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez contends that litigious NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) resisters have hijacked CEQA and are now using it for myopic, neighborhood gains such as views and urban skylines. She said that, by impeding infill residential development, CEQA aggravates the housing crisis, suburban sprawl, traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Her 2015 \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hklaw.com/publications/in-the-name-of-the-environment-litigation-abuse-under-ceqa-august-2015/\">report\u003c/a>\u003c/u> concluded that the most frequent targets of CEQA lawsuits are projects to advance California’s environmental objectives, including transit improvements and renewable energy facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt that NIMBYs sometimes abuse CEQA. And even the specter of litigation can tie up projects for years, pre-emptively discouraging developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA was created for a reason, and those reasons are being abused,” said Paul Gradeff, the developer behind a proposed student housing project in downtown Davis, where some college students are living in their cars and sleeping on couches. The Lincoln40 project has been mired in court. “CEQA can be used to delay, stall or prohibit development … under the auspices that somehow it will harm the environment,” even, he says, when a project has clear benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of the greater San Francisco area Habitat for Humanity, helped design an infill affordable housing project in Redwood City that neighbors complained was too big and too modern for the site. Eventually it was blocked by what she calls “a frivolous lawsuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The initial intent of CEQA to protect the environment of our world is critical,” she said, “but it’s become a loophole … for anti-development interests to preserve a world they remember from the 1960s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA is “a \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/ceqa/more/faq.html\">self-executing statute\u003c/a>\u003c/u>”—no single agency is responsible for enforcing it. Rather, public agencies “are entrusted with compliance with CEQA and its provisions are enforced, as necessary, by the public through litigation and the threat thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what makes it such a powerful citizen tool—whether to block new bike lanes or the enlargement of oil refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if no one is watching, projects—even potentially harmful ones—can march quietly forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need an active group of citizens who are paying attention,” said Mark Wolfe, a San Francisco attorney specializing in CEQA cases. In Santa Barbara, West LA and the Bay Area, there’s “an engaged citizenry with the time and resources to be involved in these things.” Thus, he explained, projects that might not be permitted in wealthier regions may be carried out in, say, the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bremer vineyard, which initially proposed to fell 1,059 trees, county officials gave developers a simple CEQA document on which they checked a column of boxes indicating the project would not significantly harm the environment, with mitigation. The owners of Bremer winery did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, the neighborhood activist, said “CEQA fails under Napa County implementation.” While most vineyard projects may have relatively insignificant impacts on their own—thus winning a green light to proceed—together they create a piecemeal clear-cutting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Paperwork Shuffle That’s a Sham?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In theory, you won’t have a significant impact if you follow the mitigations, but when it comes down to it, there’s almost always a significant impact,” said Richard Grassetti, an East Bay environmental consultant hired by developers to navigate the permitting process. “There’s a bit of fantasy at play to think you could mitigate everything. 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A large vineyard project called Walt Ranch in Napa County did that after proposing to fell 14,000 mature trees. To ostensibly mitigate the impacts to woodland and waterways, the owners offered to permanently preserve another piece of wooded land on their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the trees they’re saying they’re going to protect probably weren’t under much threat of being cut down, anyway,” said Wolfe, the CEQA attorney representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop Walt Ranch. “If that land was already zoned for a massive subdivision, that would make a stronger case that the impact is mitigated, but it wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A winery representative declined comment, noting “the project is being appealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly when Oakland’s Zoo expanded several years ago, the city promised in its CEQA documents to \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1988714&GUID=B85244D3-3A11-4591-9652-861D746C53AB&Options=&Search=\">protect forever 53 acres\u003c/a>\u003c/u> as habitat for the endangered Alameda whipsnake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it was already in a city park,” said environmental activist Ralph Kanz, referring to Knowland Park, which includes the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So each side in the CEQA debate has its own wish list. 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"content": "\u003cp>Let’s get the jokes out of the way first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meals under wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bumper crop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gravel-tenderized meat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are state Sen. Bob Archuleta has heard most of them. A Los Angeles County Democrat, he has a bill advancing through the Legislature that would allow Californians to “salvage” recently deceased wildlife from the sides of the state’s roads and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eyebrow-raising (and for the squeamish, stomach-churning) effort has been the butt of “many jokes here in the Capitol and even in my own hometown” of Pico Rivera, he acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But jokes aside, he insists, “this bill is dealing with very serious issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would allow outdoorsy and culinarily courageous Californians to engage in a very particular form of roadside dining, so long as they apply for a state permit after-the-fact. Proponents say that wildlife and highway regulators could then use the data to identify roadkill hotspots and help reduce human-wildlife collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would make California the most populous of a string of states—including Western ones such as Montana, Idaho and Oregon—to permit such highway harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For progressives, there’s the added selling point of not letting good meat go to waste—an argument that has won over many environmentalists and even one of the most zealous of animal protectors, PETA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While roadkill cuisine may not yet be mainstream, it appears to have joined the ranks of bug eating and dumpster diving as a counter-cultural dietary choice once associated with extreme poverty—but now earning the respect of eco-conscious foodies. As High Country News recently observed, “stereotyped hillbilly eating roadkill has been replaced by an environmentally and food conscientious middle-class urbanite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, roadkill is nothing if not free range—to tragic excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the bill has no formal opposition and has unanimously cleared the Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee, not everyone in the room was won over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judie Mancuso, founder of the animal rights advocacy group Social Compassion In Legislation, argued we “should be protecting the animals, not worried about hitting and eating them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems insane, I’m sorry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups have raised concerns that the bill could enable poaching, jeopardize traffic safety and lead to food-borne illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades California law has banned hungry drivers from pulling over to gather bumper-battered wildlife. That’s for safety reasons, but it’s also an artifact of the state’s strict hunting laws. If you want to take a deer out of the wild (or off a highway shoulder), you need a deer tag. No exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, “unlawful possession of wildlife” carries a fine of up to $1,000 and a six-month jail term. But California Fish and Wildlife officials say roadkill reapers aren’t likely to receive that maximum sentence and that it’s a “very uncommon” citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No “freeway to fork”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Archuleta and a coalition of wildlife conservationists and hunting advocates want to make that exception for only a handful of big, meaty animals including deer, elk and wild pigs. (With apologies to squirrel connoisseurs, all other critters are off the menu.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, the state would launch a pilot program in 2022 that would allow people who accidentally hit one of those animals, or come across one on the side of the road, to cart the animal home as long as they apply for a free permit within 24 hours. Applicants could file their permit on an app that would also include information on how to properly dress the carcass and avoid foodborne illness. They would also be allowed to “dispatch” animals that have been wounded, but not killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the request of California Highway Patrol, interstates are exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archuleta was born and raised in the swath of east Los Angeles County he now represents, where the vast majority of roadkill wear collars. 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State officials shuttered the program entirely after Cleland retired.\u003cbr>\nRemoving hazards, or creating new ones?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is motivated by principle: A hunter who shoots an animal is required to make an effort to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s against the law to wantonly allow an animal like that to go to waste,” he said. By the same token, seeing large game animals being left to rot alongside the side of the road “always stuck in my craw as a game warden,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in appealing to Archuleta, a former reserve police officer with the City of Montebello, the bill’s supporters primary focused on safety. At least 20,000 deer a year are hit by cars in California, a figure that could be as high as 80,000, according to UC Davis researchers. These accidents are dangerous and occasionally lethal for drivers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Idaho, 10,000 roadkill reports have been logged since the state implemented a similar program in 2012, according to Gregg Servheen of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He said the department has used that information to decide where to erect warning signs, fencing, and in a handful of cases, highway underpasses to allow wildlife to cross without harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some groups, including the California Fish and Game Wardens’ Association, have raised concerns about the bill’s unintended consequences. By allowing salvagers to apply for a permit after collecting the animal, the law could give the poachers a ready-made excuse when caught with a contraband carcass: “I swear, officer, I just found it on the side of the road!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents insist wildlife law enforcement will be able to tell if an animal has been hit by a car. 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"content": "\u003cp>Asteroids are out there, even if you can’t always see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want some naked-eye proof? It’s coming, in the form of a mountain of space rock named Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos; his task is to prevent the sun from rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stretching three-and-a-half football fields long, Apophis will cruise within 19,000 miles of Earth—the closest this large an asteroid has come in recorded history. Apophis will swing inside our ring of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, that is a Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1941472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-800x381.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram showing the trajectory of the asteroid Apophis when it swings within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029. The blue dots represent artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, and the purple ring shows the orbit of the International Space Station. \" width=\"800\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-800x381.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-160x76.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-768x366.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the trajectory of the asteroid Apophis when it swings within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029. The blue dots represent artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, and the purple ring shows the orbit of the International Space Station. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry, NASA has it all figured. Any bad luck that may befall you on that day won’t come from Apophis—probably. An earlier worst-case prediction that gave a 2.7 percent chance of Apophis striking the Earth has since been downgraded to practically nil. Actually, that’s an upgrade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Apophis is a Sparkle in NASA’s Eye\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, NASA scientists \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/923/scientists-planning-now-for-asteroid-flyby-a-decade-away/\">look forward to Apophis’\u003c/a> near miss. Given a decade to prepare, NASA might even send a robotic probe to rendezvous with the rock. At minimum, it’s an incredible opportunity to make close-up observations of a large asteroid. Apophis is large enough, and will be close enough, to see with our bare eyes, so Earth-based optical and radio telescopes will have an unprecedented view of the spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 376px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1941471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400.jpg\" alt=\"The discovery photo of asteroid Apophis, June 19, 2004. \" width=\"376\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400.jpg 376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400-160x170.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The discovery photo of asteroid Apophis, June 19, 2004. \u003ccite>(UH/IA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://pdc.iaaweb.org/\">2019 Planetary Defense Conference\u003c/a> held in Maryland this April, scientists brainstormed all the possible ways to take advantage of a flyby that others might see only as a narrowly averted disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA has used radio telescopes before to\u003ca href=\"http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2462.html\"> produce rudimentary images\u003c/a> of some passing asteroids, though these were either smaller ones or much farther away. The last time any rock this size passed close to Earth was in 2001, the asteroid 2017 VW13. That one is estimated to have passed within 76,000 miles, a third of the distance to the moon. And, since it wasn’t discovered until 2017, no one even noticed it fly by!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>God of Chaos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apophis is classified today as a “\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_groups.html\">Potentially Hazardous Asteroid\u003c/a>” (PHA). This means that it periodically crosses Earth’s orbital path, and is large enough to do some major damage if it were to hit us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far from being an infrequent visitor from deep space as many comets are, coming around only every few decades or centuries, Apophis is a denizen of the inner solar system. Its 324-day orbit carries it from just outside Earth’s orbit at its farthest point from the sun, almost to the orbit of Venus at its closest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1941470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-800x410.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram showing the orbits of the planets of the inner solar system, and the asteroid Apophis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-800x410.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-768x394.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the orbits of the planets of the inner solar system, and the asteroid Apophis. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might think that because Apophis crosses Earth’s orbit more than once each year, the chance of collision is an ever-present threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the time when Apophis crosses our path, Earth is at a different point in its orbit. It’s only those times when our orbital positions sync up that there’s any chance of bumping into each other. Think of a carnival carousel and that brass ring you try to grab each time your horse passes by it. You only have a shot at getting that ring if it swings close when you pass—and even then there’s no guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 13, 2029 is one of those match-ups, and scientists are keenly eyeing the brass ring of new discovery that will be briefly within their reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are the Chances?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While small objects pass close to Earth on a routine basis, and even collide with us more often than you might think, most go unnoticed. Three quarters of them fall over open ocean, most of the rest over sparsely populated land. And those that don’t break up in the atmosphere have limited effects when they hit the water or the ground anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger, more dangerous rocks make appearances with far less frequency—and the bigger they are, the rarer the encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">Notable impacts in recent history include the \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska\">Tunguska\u003c/a> comet or meteorite impact in Siberia in 1908, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/five-years-after-the-chelyabinsk-meteor-nasa-leads-efforts-in-planetary-defense\">Chelyabinsk\u003c/a> event in Russia in 2013. Both were smaller than Apophis, but were relatively large objects: between 200 and 600 feet across in the case of Tunguska, and about 66 feet for Chelyabinsk. They exploded in Earth’s atmosphere, producing significant effects on the ground below, though no known fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger collisions with greater regional and even global effects can be found in prehistoric times, such as the impact that formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.barringercrater.com/\">Barringer Crater\u003c/a> (aka “Meteor Crater”) in Arizona 50,000 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a “dinosaur killer” impact event you’d have to look all the way back to, well, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\">\u003cem>dinosaur killer\u003c/em> impact\u003c/a>, 66 million years ago. The asteroid that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/25256/dinosaur-extinction-new-research-favors-volcanism-as-cause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed to ending\u003c/a> the dinosaurs’s long reign on Earth, which struck the northern end of the Yucatan Peninsula near Chicxulub, Mexico, was probably six miles across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1941473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram detailing the remnants of the Chixulub impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula. Though now buried under jungle and ocean sediment, evidence of the crater can be found through radar imaging and mineral analysis of rock samples.\" width=\"536\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater-160x179.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram detailing the remnants of the Chicxulub impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula. Though now buried under jungle and ocean sediment, evidence of the crater can be found through radar imaging and mineral analysis of rock samples. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Fuchs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending Against Near Earth Objects\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, we aren’t completely in the dark about the dangers posed by \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/\">Near-Earth Objects\u003c/a>. We’re also not completely helpless when it comes to defending our planet from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years now, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/mpc.html\">international coalition\u003c/a> of observers and researchers have collaborated to find, measure, and track \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/\">Near-Earth Objects\u003c/a>. The data they collect are used to calculate the probability of a collision, and to predict the \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/\">level of damage\u003c/a> in the event of a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, a major asteroid impact with Earth is a matter of when, not if. But the good news is that none are predicted in the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current approach to \u003ca href=\"https://b612foundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planetary defense\u003c/a> hinges on the idea that the further in advance we can predict an impact, the more time we have to do something about it. If we know it’s coming years before the fact, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/content/asteroid-grand-challenge/mitigate/gravity-tractor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tiny “nudge”\u003c/a> to the asteroid’s trajectory can make the difference between a catastrophic impact and a harmless near miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Apophis’ Next Flyby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The probability of Apophis hitting the Earth in 2029 has been practically ruled out. Its close passage through Earth’s gravitational field, though, will result in a change in its orbital path, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/god-of-chaos-apophis-asteroid-strike-orbit-earth-danger-apophis-a8901781.html\">careful observations of the flyby\u003c/a> will yield more than scientific discovery, it will let us make more precise collision predictions for future encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things stand now, Apophis will make another close encounter with Earth in 2036, but will come no closer than 14 million miles. Beyond that, the chance of it hitting us anytime between 2060 and 2105 is 1 in 110,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing I’m going to lose sleep over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Asteroids are out there, even if you can’t always see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want some naked-eye proof? It’s coming, in the form of a mountain of space rock named Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos; his task is to prevent the sun from rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stretching three-and-a-half football fields long, Apophis will cruise within 19,000 miles of Earth—the closest this large an asteroid has come in recorded history. Apophis will swing inside our ring of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, that is a Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1941472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-800x381.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram showing the trajectory of the asteroid Apophis when it swings within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029. The blue dots represent artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, and the purple ring shows the orbit of the International Space Station. \" width=\"800\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-800x381.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-160x76.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029-768x366.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-trajectory-April-13_2029.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the trajectory of the asteroid Apophis when it swings within 19,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029. The blue dots represent artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, and the purple ring shows the orbit of the International Space Station. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry, NASA has it all figured. Any bad luck that may befall you on that day won’t come from Apophis—probably. An earlier worst-case prediction that gave a 2.7 percent chance of Apophis striking the Earth has since been downgraded to practically nil. Actually, that’s an upgrade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Apophis is a Sparkle in NASA’s Eye\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, NASA scientists \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/923/scientists-planning-now-for-asteroid-flyby-a-decade-away/\">look forward to Apophis’\u003c/a> near miss. Given a decade to prepare, NASA might even send a robotic probe to rendezvous with the rock. At minimum, it’s an incredible opportunity to make close-up observations of a large asteroid. Apophis is large enough, and will be close enough, to see with our bare eyes, so Earth-based optical and radio telescopes will have an unprecedented view of the spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 376px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1941471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400.jpg\" alt=\"The discovery photo of asteroid Apophis, June 19, 2004. \" width=\"376\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400.jpg 376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-discovery-image-credit-UHIA-376x400-160x170.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The discovery photo of asteroid Apophis, June 19, 2004. \u003ccite>(UH/IA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://pdc.iaaweb.org/\">2019 Planetary Defense Conference\u003c/a> held in Maryland this April, scientists brainstormed all the possible ways to take advantage of a flyby that others might see only as a narrowly averted disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA has used radio telescopes before to\u003ca href=\"http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2462.html\"> produce rudimentary images\u003c/a> of some passing asteroids, though these were either smaller ones or much farther away. The last time any rock this size passed close to Earth was in 2001, the asteroid 2017 VW13. That one is estimated to have passed within 76,000 miles, a third of the distance to the moon. And, since it wasn’t discovered until 2017, no one even noticed it fly by!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>God of Chaos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apophis is classified today as a “\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_groups.html\">Potentially Hazardous Asteroid\u003c/a>” (PHA). This means that it periodically crosses Earth’s orbital path, and is large enough to do some major damage if it were to hit us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far from being an infrequent visitor from deep space as many comets are, coming around only every few decades or centuries, Apophis is a denizen of the inner solar system. Its 324-day orbit carries it from just outside Earth’s orbit at its farthest point from the sun, almost to the orbit of Venus at its closest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1941470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-800x410.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram showing the orbits of the planets of the inner solar system, and the asteroid Apophis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-800x410.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons-768x394.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/Apophis-orbit-JPL-Horizons.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the orbits of the planets of the inner solar system, and the asteroid Apophis. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might think that because Apophis crosses Earth’s orbit more than once each year, the chance of collision is an ever-present threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the time when Apophis crosses our path, Earth is at a different point in its orbit. It’s only those times when our orbital positions sync up that there’s any chance of bumping into each other. Think of a carnival carousel and that brass ring you try to grab each time your horse passes by it. You only have a shot at getting that ring if it swings close when you pass—and even then there’s no guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 13, 2029 is one of those match-ups, and scientists are keenly eyeing the brass ring of new discovery that will be briefly within their reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are the Chances?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While small objects pass close to Earth on a routine basis, and even collide with us more often than you might think, most go unnoticed. Three quarters of them fall over open ocean, most of the rest over sparsely populated land. And those that don’t break up in the atmosphere have limited effects when they hit the water or the ground anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger, more dangerous rocks make appearances with far less frequency—and the bigger they are, the rarer the encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">Notable impacts in recent history include the \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska\">Tunguska\u003c/a> comet or meteorite impact in Siberia in 1908, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/five-years-after-the-chelyabinsk-meteor-nasa-leads-efforts-in-planetary-defense\">Chelyabinsk\u003c/a> event in Russia in 2013. Both were smaller than Apophis, but were relatively large objects: between 200 and 600 feet across in the case of Tunguska, and about 66 feet for Chelyabinsk. They exploded in Earth’s atmosphere, producing significant effects on the ground below, though no known fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger collisions with greater regional and even global effects can be found in prehistoric times, such as the impact that formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.barringercrater.com/\">Barringer Crater\u003c/a> (aka “Meteor Crater”) in Arizona 50,000 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a “dinosaur killer” impact event you’d have to look all the way back to, well, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\">\u003cem>dinosaur killer\u003c/em> impact\u003c/a>, 66 million years ago. The asteroid that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/25256/dinosaur-extinction-new-research-favors-volcanism-as-cause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed to ending\u003c/a> the dinosaurs’s long reign on Earth, which struck the northern end of the Yucatan Peninsula near Chicxulub, Mexico, was probably six miles across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1941473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1941473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram detailing the remnants of the Chixulub impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula. Though now buried under jungle and ocean sediment, evidence of the crater can be found through radar imaging and mineral analysis of rock samples.\" width=\"536\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/536px-Yucatan_chix_crater-160x179.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram detailing the remnants of the Chicxulub impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula. Though now buried under jungle and ocean sediment, evidence of the crater can be found through radar imaging and mineral analysis of rock samples. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Fuchs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending Against Near Earth Objects\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, we aren’t completely in the dark about the dangers posed by \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/\">Near-Earth Objects\u003c/a>. We’re also not completely helpless when it comes to defending our planet from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years now, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/mpc.html\">international coalition\u003c/a> of observers and researchers have collaborated to find, measure, and track \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/\">Near-Earth Objects\u003c/a>. The data they collect are used to calculate the probability of a collision, and to predict the \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/\">level of damage\u003c/a> in the event of a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, a major asteroid impact with Earth is a matter of when, not if. But the good news is that none are predicted in the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current approach to \u003ca href=\"https://b612foundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planetary defense\u003c/a> hinges on the idea that the further in advance we can predict an impact, the more time we have to do something about it. If we know it’s coming years before the fact, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/content/asteroid-grand-challenge/mitigate/gravity-tractor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tiny “nudge”\u003c/a> to the asteroid’s trajectory can make the difference between a catastrophic impact and a harmless near miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Apophis’ Next Flyby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The probability of Apophis hitting the Earth in 2029 has been practically ruled out. Its close passage through Earth’s gravitational field, though, will result in a change in its orbital path, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/god-of-chaos-apophis-asteroid-strike-orbit-earth-danger-apophis-a8901781.html\">careful observations of the flyby\u003c/a> will yield more than scientific discovery, it will let us make more precise collision predictions for future encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things stand now, Apophis will make another close encounter with Earth in 2036, but will come no closer than 14 million miles. Beyond that, the chance of it hitting us anytime between 2060 and 2105 is 1 in 110,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing I’m going to lose sleep over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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