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Redirecting an asteroid with a nuclear bomb should work
The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids with nothing more than the products of a nuclear weapons program. But it doesn't work the way you probably think it does.
Could a nuclear bomb’s x-rays save Earth from a killer asteroid?
Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.
Asteroids Could Be Deflected Using X-rays From Nuclear Weapons
Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from Earth.
X-rays from a nuclear explosion could redirect an asteroid
Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, but by showering it with X-ray radiation.
Breakthrough confirms nuclear blast can deflect large asteroids headed towards Earth
Most dangerous asteroids will require vast quantities of energy akin to nuclear explosion to deflect them, scientists say
Physicists Discover That Nuclear Bombs Could Probably Redirect an Asteroid
It’s essentially the same premise as the film Armageddon, however experts now say that if an asteroid was headed our way, a nuclear blast might just be enough to divert it. Using lab-based analogues,
Nukes Could Save Earth From an Asteroid, Just Not the Way You Imagine
Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...
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NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its ultra-close approach to Earth
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...
Scientists Propose Using Nuclear Bombs To Save Earth From Asteroid Impact
The experiment recorded in nanosecond detail how a very large pulse of radiation from a nuclear blast could essentially ...
Gizmodo Science Fair: A Clever Fix Rescued NASA’s Stuck Asteroid Samples
The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid ...
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Scientists successfully ‘nuke asteroid’ — in a lab mock-up
Experiment shows that, in a worst-case scenario, humanity could use a nuclear explosion to save the planet from a deadly ...
‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Zoom By Earth Tonight—But NASA Says It’s Safe: What To Know
The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...
Watch the Skies: Debris From NASA’s DART Asteroid Collision Could Spark a Meteor Display on Earth
NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s terrifying prediction on when asteroid may hit Earth is approaching very soon
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.