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2015 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario Orbit

This webpage does not describe a real potential asteroid impact. The information on this page is fictional and provided only to support an emergency response exercise conducted during the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) 2015 Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy, April 13-17, 2015. This is only an exercise.

A hypothetical asteroid impact scenario that will be presented at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference. The hypothetical asteroid is discovered on April 13, 2015 (the first day of the conference) and will impact Earth on September 3, 2022.

Referenced from this PDC 2015 page.