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Even the asteroid that will fall to Earth will be hit

09.07.2021 09:22 329 review
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The Chinese government has shared its plan to protect our planet from asteroids.

 

According to Unikal.org, citing foreign media, the first target was Bennu, which is also in the spotlight of NASA.

 

Beck said that China has developed a new project to destroy dangerous asteroids approaching the planet Earth. They call it the "Save the World" plan.

 

Because the probability of Bennu hitting our planet between 2175 and 2199 is estimated at 1% in 2700. To prevent this, China has announced that it can change the path of the asteroid with a 900-ton rocket.

 

The team claims that the missile could launch an asteroid named Bennu about 9,000 kilometers from its route.

 

The use of nuclear warheads may seem like the first option for such an effort, but this approach also protects the possibility of fragmentation if the pieces hit the Earth. Space engineer Mingtao Li has said that it will be possible to protect against large asteroids with nuclear weapons for 10 years.

 

In addition, it is said that the rocket will take about three years to reach the asteroid. Once each of the 23 missiles is placed on the surface of the asteroid, they will explode on the surface of Bennu.

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