If there was to be a planet-saving mission in the future, the nuclear bomb would need to be placed
- Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting X-rays at a marble-sized “mock asteroid”.
A leading theory has been to blow them up with a nuclear bomb — a last-ditch plan famously depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie “Armageddon”. In the movie, Bruce Willis and a plucky team of drillers save Earth from an asteroid 1,000 kilometres wide — roughly the size of Texas. Much of the energy created by a nuclear explosion is in the form of X-rays. Since there is no air in space, there would be no shockwave or fireball. But the X-rays still pack a powerful punch.For the lab experiment, the X-rays easily vaporised the surface of the mock asteroid.
The biggest asteroids are the easiest to detect ahead of time, so “this approach could be quite viable” even for asteroids the size of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub, Moore said.
Asteroids Space The European Space Agency’S Hera Mission
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