- Nuclear blast could save Earth from large asteroid - US physicists show how immense pulse of radiation could vaporise the side of asteroid and nudge it off course, in a new paper in Nature Physics. The strategy should work for asteroids up to 2.5 miles wide but that is not a hard upper limit. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/23/nuclear-blast-could-save-earth-from-large-asteroid 75 comments science
- Nuclear blast could save Earth from large asteroid, scientists say | US physicists show how immense pulse of radiation could vaporize the side of asteroid and nudge it off course https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/23/nuclear-blast-could-save-earth-from-large-asteroid 149 comments space
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