A gentle nudge with a nuke: deflecting Earth-bound asteroids

Ars Technica
By Matthew FrancisApr 26, 2015, 1:27 pm149 pts
In 2013, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The sonic boom from the event sent more than a thousand people to the hospital, mostly from flying glass from shattered windows. The Chelyabinsk meteor was a relatively small chunk of space rock—asteroid researchers think it was…

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