CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Torino Scale, adopted by the IAU in 1999, is a tool for categorizing potential Earth impact events . An integer scale ranging from 0 to 10 with associated color coding, it is intended primarily to facilitate public communication by the asteroid impact hazard monitoring community.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Torino Scale was created by Professor Richard P. Binzel in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Detailed explanation-3: -The scale compares the likelihood of the detected potential impact with the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of the potential impact. This average risk from random impacts is known as the background risk.

Detailed explanation-4: -Does the Torino scale have a category for meteorites? Yes, they are included in level 0.