Asteroid defense hits a lump in the road
November 03, 2026
November 03, 2026
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release:
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Asteroid defense hits a lump in the road
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and nudge it off course.
But new simulations suggest that for a lumpy, irregular asteroid, exactly where those X-r . . .
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Asteroid defense hits a lump in the road
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and nudge it off course.
But new simulations suggest that for a lumpy, irregular asteroid, exactly where those X-r . . .