CHINESE ROCKET SCIENTISTS FIND ‘MOST EFFECTIVE’ WAY TO NUKE A DOOMSDAY ASTEROID

Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening asteroid – by burying a nuclear bomb beneath its surface and exploding it. The idea is to first slam a metal penetrator into the asteroid, digging a deep hole.

News - South China Morning Post reports that chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening asteroid – by burying a nuclear bomb beneath its surface and exploding it.

The report adds: The idea is to first slam a metal penetrator into the asteroid, digging a deep hole.

A second spacecraft would then drop a nuclear bomb into the hole and blow it up, according to a team led by researchers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing.

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