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NASA Exercise Finds That No Tech Is Available to Stop an Asteroid’s Collision With Earth

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NASA and its companions all throughout the planet led a “table-top” practice a month ago to decide the time researchers will take to comprehend and discover approaches to forestall a cataclysmic impact of an approaching space rock into the Earth. The reproduction was speculative and expected to permit researchers time to get ready for such circumstances if that somehow happened to emerge. They set the situation: a puzzling space rock from around 35 million miles (56.3 million kilometers) away is coming towards Earth and is required to hit the planet in a half year. Researchers plunked down for seven days beginning April 26 to design approaches to stop or shift the bearing of the theoretical space rock, named 2021 PDC.

The members were given data about the space rock each day, which addressed a month in the activity timetable. The space rock was resolved to be anyplace somewhere in the range of 35m and 700m in size. As time passes, the researchers started creating data.

Finally, on Day 2, they confirmed that the asteroid impact will happen in six months across a vast region, which includes Europe and Northern Africa. By the end of the week, they said with some degree of certainty that the asteroid would hit between Germany and the Czech Republic.

The scientists later concluded that currently there was no technology available to stop a massive asteroid from wiping out the world. For deflecting the asteroid, they added, more time than six months would be required.

The scientists said in a statement that if confronted with the hypothetical scenario in real life “we would not be able to launch any spacecraft on such short notice with current capabilities.”

They also said that use of a nuclear explosive device to disrupt the asteroid could reduce the risk of damage even in the absence of a clear understanding of asteroid properties. However, the ability of typical nuclear explosive devices to robustly disrupt near-Earth objects may not be adequate for larger asteroids.

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