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)
2021 Planetary Defense Conference
(virtually) in Vienna, Austria, April 26–April 30, 2021.
This is only an exercise.
The 2021 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario, Day 1: April 26, 2021
These three images show the very large region, here shaded in red/purple, where 2021 PDC could potentially impact on October 20, 2021. The region covers roughly 2/3 of Earth’s surface.
A Google Earth kml file for this predicted impact region
is available here.
