NASA’s Plan for Battering Ram to Shunt Asteroid Off Collision Course With Earth
The Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 at 7:05 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images
Asteroid Bennu might only have a one in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth, but it would explode with 80,000 times the force of Hiroshima.
And while the 63,000-mph, 87.08 million-ton object isn’t due to hurtle close enough to Earth until 2135 (Sept 25, to be precise) researchers said there is no time to lose in figuring out a way to deflect it.
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
