Saturday, August 12, 2006

A Novel Strategy for Asteroid Deflection





A new paper suggests an alternative strategy: why not capture a nearby asteroid and put it into an Earth-bound orbit to use as a shield?

Such an asteroid could then be moved as needed to absorb the impact of any collision that would otherwise hit the Earth.


A deceptively simple solution. I wish I'd thought of it.

3 comments:

razorsmile said...

What if it's on the wrong side at the time?

Mac said...

What if it's on the wrong side at the time?

Ummm... Nuke it!

razorsmile said...

That's your answer to everything!

:D