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Chinese Researchers Propose Deflecting Armageddon Asteroids with Rockets
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Will humans go extinct?
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.
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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The plan? Rockets. Lots of rockets.
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In this image taken from video footage run by China’s CCTV, the docking process in space between the Tianhe core module of China’s space station and a Shenzhou-12 spaceship carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts is seen, Thursday, June 17, 2021.
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With a raging COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing anyone wants to think about is another possible way the world could come crumbling down. For researchers in China’s National Space Science Center, that is exactly what they focusing on, reported Yahoo News.
Their concern: “Armageddon” by an asteroid, reported Reuters.
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