A Plan To Avoid Asteroids Heading Towards Earth: Last year, NASA conducted an experiment with a spacecraft called Dart to change the path of asteroids coming towards Earth, but scientists are preparing another project involving a nuclear bomb as an alternative to this project.
Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have created a simulation in which they tried to find out if the atomic bomb could save us if NASA failed to save us from an asteroid heading towards Earth.
The model showed that a bomb dropped on an asteroid explodes on impact with a space rock and all the energy passes through the rock.
From this simulation, the team observed two scenarios. By doing so, the bomb would either deflect the asteroid away from Earth or break the asteroid into small pieces and the fast-moving pieces would also face off. will turn from the earth.
The American space agency NASA sent a spacecraft into space in 2020 towards the asteroid, which successfully removed it from its orbit last year. This success for the institute was seen as the ability to change the direction of asteroids coming towards Earth.