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Chinese scientists say they have found the best nuclear strategy to deflect an asteroid

Science and Technology suggests that humanity’s best option for stopping a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth ...
NextBigFuture

Smart Cloud – A New Method for the Deflection and Mitigation of Asteroids

Alison Gibbings and Massimiliano Vasile, aerospace engineers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, new solution is a 500-kilogram swarm of fingernail-sized spacecraft would, they calculate, deflect a ...
Newsweek

MIT Scientists Create System To Decide How to Save Earth From an Incoming Asteroid

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have ...
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NASA is pulling a “Deep Impact”: New spacecraft will test asteroid deflection methods

Among existential threats to humanity, asteroid impacts rank high — in part because they’ve caused extinction-level events on Earth so many times before. Indeed, the dinosaurs perished 66 million ...
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DART Mission Advances Planetary Defense with Kinetic Impactor and Asteroid Deflection Hardware

Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies. Pixabay The concept of planetary ...