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(Photo : NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface.
China is planning a rocket launch targeting an asteroid with a slim chance of hitting Earth.
The planned rocket launch will make use of more than 20 of China s Long March 5 rockets to divert an asteroid named Bennu away from the planet. Specifically, scientists plan to use the rockets to push Bennu 6,000 off a fatal course.
Scientists believe that a collision between Earth and Bennu will be cataclysmic.
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Chinese researchers plan to fire more than 20 of the nation s largest rockets into space in hopes to potentially divert doomsday asteroids that could impose massive destruction and end life on Earth.
The 23 Long March 5 rockets that weighs 992 tons (900 metric tons) are expected to deflect the 85.5-million-ton (77.5 million metric ton) asteroid Bennu. The space rock which is the size of the Empire State Building could hit Earth in 1 out of 2,700 chances, but would leave behind a historic catastrophic event.
The asteroid impact - 1,200 megatons of kinetic energy - could hit Earth with an collision that is roughly 80,000 times greater than the energy of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and as destructive as the 100-million-megaton space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
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