‘Beast’ Asteroid That Will Buzz By Earth

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The project "Deep Impact", when they hurdled a projectile into that comet was probably more than just to investigate what makes up a comets materials.

Deep Impact Mission to a comet | NASA

"The Space-Land-Air-Missile Shield (SLAMS) is a joint venture by the European Federation and the United States of America. A Kinetic Strike, nicknamed Rods from God, already exists and is a space-based weapons system in use by the United States of America. It serves as the WMD for the Joint Strike Force. A hole opens up in the satellite, gravity pulls a slender titanium rod out of it's sheath and it hurtles earthward gaining acceleration without wind resistance. By the time it hits the ground it is carrying the kinetic energy of a nuclear weapon concentrated in the tip."

Space-Land-Air-Missile Shield - EndWar Wiki
Vault-Co: "Rods From God" Military Hardware Captured In Geostationary Orbit

Here is another they are thinking of.




Published on Mar 26, 2013


Asteroids on a collision course with Earth could be rerouted by spray painting them with a thin layer of paint, a Texas A&M University professor says.
Dave Hyland, an aerospace and physics professor at Texas A&M, says an asteroid collision could be prevented by spraying a thin layer of paint on an approaching asteroid.
The orbit of an asteroid is altered by radiation from the sun, which heats the side of the asteroid facing the sun. This causes that side to release more radiation than the other side. This property, called the Yarkovsky effect, acts like a rocket thruster, slowly pushing the asteroid toward a collision path with Earth.
The paint would be made from a powder and an inert gas. It could be given a negative charge to make it stick to the asteroid when hit by the positively charged solar wind.

Painting the asteroid white would reduce the Yarkovsky effect, while painting it black would increase the effect.
Hyland and his students are working with NASA and could launch a mission into low-Earth orbit next year to test a paint-dispensing system.

SOURCES: Texas A&M University, San Francisco Chronicle.....snip~