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NASA will launch a mission that is set to strike an asteroid moonlet to simulate the deflection of a possible Earth-bound asteroid.
It is through these giant impacts that planets like the young Earth grow to their final mass and achieve long-term stable orbital configurations.
In 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over the Tunguska River in Russia, devastating a 1200-square-mile area. In 1978, Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák proposed that the asteroid was a fragment of Comet Encke, a periodic comet that orbits the Sun every 3.3 years and is part of the group responsible for the annual... Read more »
From both the “What could possibly go wrong?” and the “Science fiction becomes reality” files comes word that NASA has officially announced the launch date for a mission to attempt to deflect an asteroid from its path as a test of technology that may one day be needed to save Earth from a meteor or... Read more »
King revealed that nuclear bombs could be used only as a last resort to save planet earth