How to Deflect an Asteroid with Today’s Technology
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cygonaut
Oct 18, 2010, 7:14:24 PM10/18/10
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Artist concept of a space tug. Credit: NASA
Apollo 9 astronaut
Rusty Schweickart is among an international group of people championing the need
for the human race to prepare for what will certainly happen one day: an asteroid
threat to Earth. In
an article on Universe Today published yesterday, Schweickart said the
technology is available today to send a mission to an asteroid in an attempt to
move it, or change its orbit so that
an asteroid that threatens to hit Earth will pass by harmlessly. What would such
a mission entail?
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