Who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit Earth? This woman

Aarti Holla-Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed inside a grey and unassuming 1970s concrete tower complex next to the Danube River. Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a background in the satellite business, needed to have at least played out the scena...

By Oliver Holmes