Sentences with phrase «deflecting smaller asteroids»
He cogently explains the technical hurdles in both sighting and deflecting smaller asteroids.
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It is currently developing DART, a small spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid to deflect it from Earth.
Launching missions to track or deflect all potential asteroid threats will be prohibitively expensive, but even a small probability of regional or global devastation may not be politically palatable.