In this episode, Kevin Cirilli sits down with Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation. A former NASA astronaut who spent six months aboard the International Space Station, Ed joins Kevin to unpack one of the closest asteroid flybys in recorded history. Just a few weeks ago, asteroid 2025 TF skimmed past Earth — flying over Antarctica at only 428 kilometers above the surface, nearly the same altitude as the ISS. Kevin and Ed break down how astronomers detected it only after it passed, what that near miss reveals about our blind spots in planetary defense, and how new technology could help us find the next one before it finds us.

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