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Mosby

(16,319 posts) Mon Feb 25, 2013, 10:00 PM Feb 2013

NASA has plan for big asteroids.

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NASA has plan for big asteroids. (Original Post) Mosby Feb 2013 OP

Some people are capable of thinking it is good to realize this from time to time. highly recommended gordianot Feb 2013 #1

Well, .... NASA has sort of a plan for a plan... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #2

Sounds like John Hopkins has a plan goldent Feb 2013 #3

gordianot

(15,242 posts)

1. Some people are capable of thinking it is good to realize this from time to time. highly recommended

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Mon Feb 25, 2013, 10:13 PM

Feb 2013

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)

2. Well, .... NASA has sort of a plan for a plan...

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Mon Feb 25, 2013, 10:18 PM

Feb 2013

...to track all the extinction magnitude asteroids and, someday, to figure out the best approach for disturbing the orbits of threatening asteroids, and, after that, to implement the technology for deflection.

Sounds like a great plan for a plan for a plan to me!

Don't get me wrong, the NASA dudettes and dudes are the right folks to do this, once the powers that be remove the hobbles from research.

goldent

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3. Sounds like John Hopkins has a plan

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Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:29 AM

Feb 2013

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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory are preparing a decade-long, $350 million project to propel a rocket into the asteroid Didymos as it passes close to Earth. If successful, it would be the first time an asteroid is knocked off course by human intervention.

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