# Adventures of an asteroid hunter

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2016
- Speaker: Carrie Nugent
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Astronomy and space
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/carrie_nugent_adventures_of_an_asteroid_hunter)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have shaped our planet, and how finding them at the right time could mean nothing less than saving life on Earth.

## Lectures

1. [Adventures of an asteroid hunter](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/carrie_nugent_adventures_of_an_asteroid_hunter/36cb356cd169), 6 min (TED's player)