Saturday 30 March 2013

Big Ideas: Declare war on incoming asteroids

Asteroid Eros

Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University, has a missile -- the Hyper-Velocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) -- that could blast nearby space rocks by exploding them from within, Armaggedon-style. Up front: a "kinetic energy interceptor". In the back: a nuke.


By: Ben Paynter, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/03/big-ideas/declare-war-on-incoming-asteroids

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