NASA: Nuclear Bombs Could Save Earth From Killer Asteroids
NASA prepares for real-life Armageddon! Now the space
agency and the National Nuclear Security Administration are working
together on the possibility of destroying hazardous asteroids using
nuclear weapons.
According to scientists, there are around one million near-Earth asteroids that could pose a threat to our planet – but only a tiny fraction have so far been detected.
Dramatic proof came on 15 February 2013, when an unknown object exploded high above Chelyabinsk, Russia, with 20 – 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
So, NASA claims that using a nuclear weapons to blow up asteroids may work (particularly well – on medium-sized asteroids and comets between 164 and 492 feet in diameter).
But some experts say that the resulting rock fragments could make the situation worse, and that deflecting an asteroid may prove to be a better solution.
Over the past two decades, Nasa has been looking for dangerous near-Earth asteroids larger than 1km in size. But existing asteroid detection systems can only track one per cent of the estimated objects that orbit the Sun.
Source: Dailymail
According to scientists, there are around one million near-Earth asteroids that could pose a threat to our planet – but only a tiny fraction have so far been detected.
Dramatic proof came on 15 February 2013, when an unknown object exploded high above Chelyabinsk, Russia, with 20 – 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
So, NASA claims that using a nuclear weapons to blow up asteroids may work (particularly well – on medium-sized asteroids and comets between 164 and 492 feet in diameter).
But some experts say that the resulting rock fragments could make the situation worse, and that deflecting an asteroid may prove to be a better solution.
Over the past two decades, Nasa has been looking for dangerous near-Earth asteroids larger than 1km in size. But existing asteroid detection systems can only track one per cent of the estimated objects that orbit the Sun.
Source: Dailymail
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