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Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts
Sunday, December 6, 2009
To Deflect An Asteroid, Try A Lasso, Not ANuke
From Wired Science:
To save the world from the real threat of a major asteroid impact, one engineer has imagined a scheme similar to George Bailey’s wish to lasso the moon for his sweetheart in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
The plan is to attach a gigantic weight to an Earth-bound asteroid using an enormous cord. This crazy-sounding contraption would change the asteroid’s center of mass and subsequently its trajectory, averting a potentially catastrophic scenario.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Asteroid Passes Just 8,700 Miles From Earth - With Only 15 Hours Warning
Don't panic! Although the asteroid passed within 9,000 miles of Earth it measured just 23ft across and wouldn't have dented the surface (artist's illustration)
From The Daily Mail:
You almost certainly missed it - and luckily it missed you - but an asteroid has come within 8,700 miles of hitting the Earth.
Astronomers spotted the object only 15 hours before its closest approach to our planet last Friday.
Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Asteroid Over Indonesia Triple Hiroshima Bomb Power
From Future Pundit:
An asteroid over Indonesia exploded too high up to cause ground damage but with enormous force.
Read more ....On 8 October an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed.
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