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NASA and US Working On Possibility Of Nuking Dangerous Asteroids
NASA and US Nuclear Security Administration working on possibility of nuking dangerous asteroids and comets. NASA is working with the US Nuclear Security Administration at the possibility of using nuclear bombs to destroy hazardous asteroids and comets heading towards Earth.
In a new partnership to defend Earth and its populations, the two bodies are looking at how to deflect and/or stop around one million near-Earth asteroids that could threaten cities and, in the case of a very large asteroid, the planet, New York Times reported. Only a tiny fraction of those asteroids have been detected and can be tracked.
As in the 1998 film Armageddon — where Bruce Willis flies a space shuttle to an oncoming asteroid to drill a warhead into its core — the nuclear payload could be delivered by rocket. “Often, these agencies focus on their own pieces of the puzzle, so anything that brings them together is a good thing,’ Bruce Betts, director of science and technology at the Planetary Society told the Times.
On February 15, 2013, a meteor weighing 12,000-13,000 metric tonnes and about 20 metres in diameter exploded above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1500 people. The dazzling light from the meteoroid — which is smaller than an asteroid — blinded eyes and burned skin even though the temperature in the city was below freezing.
It gave the threat from an asteroid new credibility and NASA chief Charles Bolden told the US Congress in March 2013 that if a large asteroid was heading for New York City then his advice would be to pray.
The two agencies have studied the threat of asteroids on their own and are now looking to combine their expertise in designing rocket interceptors and have run supercomputer simulations to see if a nuclear blast could nudge a large asteroid off course.
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SOURCE: Real Thing TV
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