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Meeting the Asteroid Threat

Posted by liam on February 20, 2007 1:00 PM | 

One of the funniest intro's to a news story i've seen in a while.

Astronomers say they can now compute with great confidence which asteroids pose a threat to our planet. The problem is preventing a collision

So scientists can tell us whether we will be getting destroyed by an asteroid but can't really fix the problem yet. It's a good strory if you read on, apparently the best idea so far is a gravity tractor (which is a great name in my opinion)

best way to deflect an asteroid is with a "gravity tractor"--a spacecraft displacing about 1 metric ton that simply hovers near an asteroid and gently tweaks its orbit

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