Torino scale
Escala de Turín
- Date
- 1999 · confidence high
- Place
- Turin, Italy
- Credited to
- Richard P. Binzel
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Binzel presented in 1995 a "hazard index" for near-Earth objects that combines impact probability and expected kinetic damage into a single 0-10 scale; a revised version was adopted at an international conference in Turin in 1999, which gave it its final name.
The first version, called the "Near-Earth Object Hazard Index," was presented by Binzel at MIT at a UN conference in 1995; the scale took its final name after being revised and adopted in Turin in 1999.
What it led to
- Standardized public communication of asteroid impact risk
- 2005 revision to reduce media misinterpretation of Level 1