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Chinese researchers propose deflecting Armageddon asteroids with rockets Reuters 14 hrs ago © Reuters/TINGSHU WANG FILE PHOTO: China s lunar exploration program Chang e-5 Mission exhibition at National Museum in Beijing BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China s largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision course with Earth. The idea is more than science fiction. Sometime between late 2021 to early 2022, the United States will launch a robotic spacecraft to intercept two asteroids relatively close to Earth. When it arrives a year later, the NASA spacecraft will crash-land on the smaller of the two rocky bodies to see how much the asteroid s trajectory changes. It will be humanity s first try at changing the course of a celestial body.

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