Our last resource to defend ourselves from an Asteroid.
Our last resource to defend ourselves from an Asteroid.
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The threat of asteroids is real especially because of the large number of small asteroids, many of which have not yet been discovered and have enough power to destroy a large city if we are unlucky enough to hit one, but do to defend the planet.
We would have a plan B, since the professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara Philip Lubin and the co-researcher Alexander Cohen have presented advances in space research a few weeks ago in the journal, which could be our last resort plan for defend the planet, in fact the researchers use a stronger term, they call it Terminal Defense for Humanity, and they call their strategy PI Short for pulverize it.
That is precisely what the researchers propose, to break up the asteroid as a last resort, the fragments of the asteroid, even if it breaks apart, will not change course, they will continue on a collision course with the earth, but most of them would disintegrate in the atmosphere without causing damage. , our dearest atmosphere is a good shield against space rocks, it can disintegrate those smaller than a couple of meters, unless they are metallic or made of a very dense material, but even if some remains hit it, it would not even remotely cause the damage that can be caused by an entire asteroid over 100 meters.
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That is why the idea of disintegrating it, of breaking it as a last resort could be our salvation, the plan of the Californian researchers consists of building a rocket capable of hitting an asteroid, movement of which is not easy from the start, the head of the rocket The impactor, as it is more technically said, would in this case be loaded with explosives and the most original aspect of the project is that it would be equipped with a system of penetrating rods of between 10 and 30 centimeters in diameter and between 2 and 4 meters long.
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