the job of looking to see if there s anything specifically we need to worry about and give us as much warning time as we can have. is there anything hurtling toward earth? no, as far as we know we re clear for the next 100 years or go there are sizes we only know about where half of them are, but as far as we know, we are in the clear. i m so glad i can cross this off my worry list for the next 100 years. that s very good news. my producers also want to ask, did you get the idea of this from the movie armageddon ? no, full credit, my colleague at the applied physics laboratory is the one who realized we could do a test like this in a binary system, and
where this is a double astroid. we think of earth and the moon as a binary system. this is a big one and a little one and so we have they re orbital parameters and so if you go and deflect the moon by the tiniest amount, you can compare the future data with your data from the past and acrecurately measure what effect it had on the trajectory of the moon. just because i m worried about myself, is there any remote possibility that they re tracking right now about something that may, this may happen or is this just to know what you could do? it s a test. it s a test of can we change the orbit of an asastroid. we cross the street every time the same streets trucks are there. you don t get hit. why? because you re crossing at a time different. the three ways you can deflect
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