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Bad Idea: Blowing Up Asteroids with Nuclear Missiles
Sunday, July 27, 2008 --- 118 days ago
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On 4 July 2005, NASA collided a projectile with comet Tempel 1. Should a nuclear warhead be used in the future to deflect asteroids? (NASA) The first thing that comes to mind when someone asks: " How do we deflect a near Earth asteroid ?" is " Fire some nuclear missiles at it ." However, this might not be the best course of action. Akin to opening a walnut with a sledgehammer, there might be a better, less messy option. This is what Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart thinks at least. Last year, NASA issued a report suggesting they were seriously considering a nuclear option should an asteroid threaten Earth. However, the ex-lunar module pilot believes this decision was manipulated by political pressure, possibly indicating the asteroid threat was being used to speed up nuclear proliferation in space… (...) Read the rest of Bad Idea: Blowing Up Asteroids with Nuclear Missiles (315 words) © Ian O'Neill for Universe Today , 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us digg Who's linking ? Technorati BlogPulse Google Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under Asteroids , NASA . ...
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On 4 July 2005, NASA collided a projectile with comet Tempel 1. Should a nuclear warhead be used in the future to deflect asteroids? (NASA) The first thing that comes to mind when someone asks: " How do we deflect a near Earth asteroid ?" is " Fire some nuclear missiles at it ." However, this might not be the best course of action. Akin to opening a walnut with a sledgehammer, there might be a better, less messy option. This is what Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart thinks at least. Last year, NASA issued a report suggesting they were seriously considering a nuclear option should an asteroid threaten Earth. However, the ex-lunar module pilot believes this decision was manipulated by political pressure, possibly indicating the asteroid threat was being used to speed up nuclear proliferation in space… (...) Read the rest of Bad Idea: Blowing Up Asteroids with Nuclear Missiles (315 words) © Ian O'Neill for Universe Today , 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us digg Who's linking ? Technorati BlogPulse Google Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under Asteroids , NASA . ...