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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
European Space Agency spacecraft to steer asteroids away from Earth
Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...
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‘Gravity tractor’ could be deployed to nudge asteroids away from Earth, says European Space Agency
Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...
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Why Did the Meteors at Chelyabinsk and the Tunguska Event Explode?
high altitude clouds over the Tunguska region of Siberia that was able to reflect sunlight from beyond the horizon. Exploding over an isolated stretch of forest, the explosion blew an 800 square ...