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How Diffractive Solar Sails Could Stop a Killer Asteroid at 100 km/s
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How Diffractive Solar Sails Could Stop a Killer Asteroid at 100 km/s
Asteroids don’t come with a warning label that they might one day hit Earth. While we don’t know of any currently on course to do so, we are finding thousands of new ones each year, and there’s always a potential that one could. We proved a viable technique for dealing with that eventuality - the DART mission successfully moved a small asteroid using a “kinetic impactor” - basically a big rod designed to push the asteroid off its trajectory. But…
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Researchers at Beihang University presented a new approach to divert potentially dangerous asteroids, using diffraction solar candles. The technique, which aims to increase efficiency in energy transfer during impact, can offer...
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