Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you
Ryan Wills; Barry Hetherington; ESA; NASA; AdobeStock Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates asteroids from 0 to 10 based on how certain we are that they could hit Earth –…


